The effects of stress and mood on cognitive performance
Description
When discussing human factors and performance, researchers recognize stress as a factor, but overlook mood as contributing factor. To explore the relationship between mood, stress and cognitive performance, a field study was conducted involving fire fighters engaged in a fire response simulation. Firefighter participants completed a stress questionnaire, an emotional state questionnaire, and a cognitive task. Stress and cognitive task performance scores were examined before and after the firefighting simulation for individual cognitive performance depreciation caused by stress or mood. They study revealed that existing stress was a reliable predictor of the pre-simulation cognitive task score, that, as mood becomes more positive, perceived stress scores decrease, and that negative mood and pre-simulation stress are also positively and significantly correlated.
Date Created
The date the item was original created (prior to any relationship with the ASU Digital Repositories.)
2014
Agent
- Author (aut): Gomez-Herbert, Maria Elena
- Thesis advisor (ths): Cooke, Nancy J.
- Committee member: Becker, Vaughn
- Committee member: Branaghan, Russell
- Committee member: Hyunjin, Song
- Publisher (pbl): Arizona State University