The Relationship Between Anxiety And Verbal Working Memory Performance

• Main Author: Sharifah Khairieyah, Syed Hood
• Format: Final Year Project Report
• Language: English; English
• Published: Universiti Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS) 2022
• Subjects: H Social Sciences (General); HM Sociology
• Online Access: http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43137/1/SHARIFAH%20KHAIRIEYAH%20SYED%20HOOD%20%2824pgs%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43137/5/SHARIFAH%20KHAIRIEYAH%20SYED%20HOOD%20%28Fulltext%29.pdf; http://ir.unimas.my/id/eprint/43137/

This study aimed to identify the relationship between anxiety and verbal working memory performance based on the total number of correct items recalled and the total time taken. A quasi-experimental design was employed in this study. The study was conducted with 30 undergraduate participants from University Malaysia Sarawak (UNIMAS). Participants were administered the State-Trait Anxiety Inventory, adopted from Spielberger (1983), to measure their state and trait anxiety. The participant answered the Reading Span task adapted from Daneman and Carpenter (1980). The correlation between anxiety and verbal working memory performance was then analysed using Spearman Correlation. The findings reveal that there was no significant relationship between anxiety and verbal working memory performance for the total number of correct items recalled and the total time taken, which is contrary to the prominent finding that supports anxiety has a negative relationship with verbal working memory performance.