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Performance correlates of self‐reported cognitive failure and of obsessionality
Author(s) -
Broadbent Donald E.,
Broadbent Margaret H. P.,
Jones Julian L.
Publication year - 1986
Publication title -
british journal of clinical psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.479
H-Index - 92
eISSN - 2044-8260
pISSN - 0144-6657
DOI - 10.1111/j.2044-8260.1986.tb00708.x
Subject(s) - psychology , personality , cognition , vulnerability (computing) , clinical psychology , population , developmental psychology , psychiatry , social psychology , demography , sociology , computer security , computer science
In six experiments, two performance tests, measuring a number of aspects of attention, were administered to 129 people from the general population. Self‐reported cognitive failure, and a measure of obsessional personality, were related to one particular measure of attention. There was evidence that individuals with low cognitive failure show different patterns of attention when anxious, as compared with high scorers; this may underlie differences in vulnerability to environmental stresses.