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THE EFFECT OF THREAT‐ AND TASK‐ORIENTED ATTITUDE UPON PERFORMANCE UNDER STRESS
Author(s) -
Bergström Bengt,
Arnberg Peter
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
scandinavian journal of psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.743
H-Index - 72
eISSN - 1467-9450
pISSN - 0036-5564
DOI - 10.1111/j.1467-9450.1971.tb00600.x
Subject(s) - arousal , psychology , task (project management) , stress (linguistics) , social psychology , engineering , linguistics , philosophy , systems engineering
BERGSTRÖM, B. & ARNBERG, P. The effect of threat‐ and task‐oriented attitude upon performance under stress. Scand. J. Psychol. , 1971, 12, 14–20. – Tracking performance and arousal level were studied on 30 army conscripts who were threatened with electric shocks. It was hypothesized that subjects with experimentally induced threat‐oriented (‘despair’) attitude would degrade performance as a function of arousal, and that task‐oriented (‘confidence’) attitude would retain normal performance under high arousal. The results showed that performance deteriorated more under conditions of despair, but that the arousal‐performance relation conformed to the activation theory in both conditions.