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Psychological performance of anxious patients in tests used in anxiolytic drug trials
Author(s) -
ZimmermannTansella Christa
Publication year - 1984
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 - 10.1002/1097-4679(198409)40:5<1143::aid-jclp2270400504>3.0.co;2-c
Subject(s) - psychology , anxiolytic , anxiety , personality , clinical psychology , effects of sleep deprivation on cognitive performance , drug trial , drug , cognition , psychiatry , clinical trial , medicine , social psychology
Tested sixty anxious inpatients under drug free conditions with a performance battery commonly used for the evaluation of impairment deficits in anxiolytic drug trials to examine the interrelations among the various performance tasks and to gain some preliminary indication of the underlying factor structure. A factor of general performance ability accounted for 40% of the total variance and contributed to the performance of tasks with cognitive as well as motor components. Performance was related to age and intellectual efficacy, while personality variables and state anxiety had a trascurable influence on performance.