Pitching a Yerkes–Dodson curve ball?: A study exploring enhanced workplace performance for individuals with anxiety disorders

Mellifont, Damian; Smith‐Merry, Jennifer; Scanlan, Justin Newton

doi:10.1080/15555240.2015.1119654

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“…The anxiety scale used in this study did not represent a diagnosis of anxiety disorder, and only 13.4% of the participants met the cut-off point, which indicates that most participants had non-severe anxiety symptoms. According to Yerkes and Dodson's law, a moderate level of anxiety increases individual performance ( Mellifont et al, 2016 ). Adolescents with such level of anxiety may manifest motivation, energy, and inspiration and devote themselves to academic activities.…”

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Problematic Internet use and academic engagement during the COVID-19 lockdown: The indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and insomnia in early, middle, and late adolescence

Liu

Zou

Zhang

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Journal of Affective Disorders

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Problematic Internet use and academic engagement during the COVID-19 lockdown: The indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and insomnia in early, middle, and late adolescence

Liu

Zou

Zhang

et al. 2022

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…As we all know, anxiety is a way for the brain to help people to avoid harm. In psychology, we call this the inverted U hypothesis, also known as the "Yerkes-Dodson Law" [1]. The hypothesis itself is a theory used to explain the relationship between psychological stress, job difficulty, and job performance.…”

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The Influence of Test Anxiety on Teenagers

2023

EHSS

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With the rapid development of information dissemination methods, people can more easily access news and learn about other people's lives. Although the popularity of information has brought convenience to people's lives, it has also further increased the anxiety of some people. As one of the main groups on the Internet, adolescents will inevitably be affected. Test anxiety is one of them. This article will take you through test anxiety in a systematic and as comprehensive way as possible. The article will focus on basic information about test anxiety, the similarities, and differences between test anxiety and other anxiety, the effects, causes, and ways to relieve it. The article will help those who want to explore test anxiety in more depth to have a more comprehensive perspective. The article will help open the minds of those who want to conduct special studies on test anxiety in the future. The findings of this study provide enlightenment for alleviating teenagers’ test anxiety and promoting their good academic development.

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“…It was likely that even when the interview performance anxiety was reduced, those who had previous anxious interview experience still experienced behavioural anxiety because the underlying autonomic arousal mechanism was stimulated by the images. Given that adrenaline-fuelled bodily experiences had the potential to make or break performances [18,53], it would be worthwhile for follow-up studies to investigate the relationship between interview anxiety and performance.…”

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Seeing is relieving: effects of serious storytelling with images on interview performance anxiety

Lin-Stephens

Manuguerra

Bulbert

2022

Multimed Tools Appl

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Serious storytelling as a media genre has the potential to accentuate the benefits of narrative interventions in health and education. To inform its application, it is necessary to identify effects of sensory inputs. Here, we focus on visual stimuli and observe their effects on an anxiety condition. We examine whether serious storytelling incorporating images, a type of basic visual stimuli, may reduce interview performance anxiety. In a double-blind randomised control trial, 69 participants with matched levels of anxiety received serious storytelling interview training and were allocated to exposure (image-based preparation) and control (standard preparation) groups. A week later, participants attended individual interviews with two independent interviewers and reported their interview anxiety. Analyses revealed a positive relationship between generalised anxiety and some dimensions of interview anxiety, but serious storytelling with images predicted a reduction in interview performance anxiety (effect size at the median value of covariates on a visual analogue scale with the range 0–100: -36.7, 95% CI [−54.7, −2.5]). Low participation burden in the brief intervention was confirmed through a deductive thematic analysis. The images were analysed based on format type and origin to inform further inquiries. This study yielded empirical findings with implications of media and technology development for serious storytelling. Seeing images of experiences during interview preparation was associated with a relief of interviewees’ anxiety towards interview performance, but further studies are necessary to consolidate the evidence for visual narrative applications in health and education.

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Pitching a Yerkes–Dodson curve ball?: A study exploring enhanced workplace performance for individuals with anxiety disorders

Cited by 12 publications

References 32 publications

Problematic Internet use and academic engagement during the COVID-19 lockdown: The indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and insomnia in early, middle, and late adolescence

Problematic Internet use and academic engagement during the COVID-19 lockdown: The indirect effects of depression, anxiety, and insomnia in early, middle, and late adolescence

The Influence of Test Anxiety on Teenagers

Seeing is relieving: effects of serious storytelling with images on interview performance anxiety

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