RESEARCH ARTICLE
The Association Between Negative Attributional Style and Working Memory Performance
Rahmi Saylik1, *, Andre J. Szameitat2
Article Information
Identifiers and Pagination:
Year: 2018Volume: 11
First Page: 131
Last Page: 141
Publisher ID: TOPSYJ-11-131
DOI: 10.2174/1874350101811010131
Article History:
Received Date: 18/4/2018Revision Received Date: 30/5/2018
Acceptance Date: 5/6/2018
Electronic publication date: 24/7/2018
Collection year: 2018
open-access license: This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Public License (CC-BY 4.0), a copy of which is available at: (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode). This license permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Introduction:
It has been proposed that negative attributions contribute to impairment in cognitive task processing. However, it is still unknown whether negative attributions influence task processing in all cognitive tasks.
Methods:
To investigate this, 91 healthy participants completed attributional style questionnaire and performed three Working Memory (WM) tasks, which associated with different functions of WM (i.e. Central Executive System (CES) and visuospatial sketchpad).
Results:
The results demonstrated that negative attributions contribute to the impairment in cognitive tasks which is associated with spatial working memory rather than main central executive functions (i.e. switching and inhibition).
Conclusions:
It is concluded that negative attributions may selectively disrupt spatial working memory functions, thus a detrimental effect of negative attributions may be task specific.