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Anxiety and cognitive performance in adolescent women with disruptive behavior disorders
Author(s) -
Haggerty John C.,
Nevid Jeffrey S.,
Moulton John L.
Publication year - 1998
Publication title -
journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.124
H-Index - 119
eISSN - 1097-4679
pISSN - 0021-9762
DOI - 10.1002/(sici)1097-4679(199812)54:8<1017::aid-jclp2>3.0.co;2-l
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiety , verbal fluency test , cognition , interpersonal communication , nonverbal communication , clinical psychology , fluency , developmental psychology , neuropsychology , psychiatry , social psychology , mathematics education
Comparing 36 disruptive behavior–disordered and 40 normal female adolescents, we found higher levels of anxiety and poorer performance on a measure of verbal fluency in the clinical sample. No group differences were found on a nonverbal measure of reflectivity nor on a measure of interpersonal cognitive problem solving. Nor was evidence found for an hypothesized anxiety‐related performance decrement among disruptive behavior—disordered youth. However, anxiety induction facilitated performance across groups on interpersonal cognitive problem solving. © 1998 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. J Clin Psychol 54: 1017–1027, 1998.