Assessing acute stress with the Implicit Association Test |
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Authors: | Sato Hirotsune Kawahara Jun-ichiro |
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Institution: | National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. jun.kawahara@aist.go.jp |
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Abstract: | Assessments of acute stress using self-report questionnaires can be biased by various factors, including social desirability. The present study used a bias-free method, the Implicit Association Test (IAT), to assess stress. Unlike a previous study (Schmukle & Egloff, 2004) in which acute stress was not detected with the IAT, this study manipulated stress by generating test anxiety and threatening self-esteem. The results revealed that the IAT effect was greater in the high-stress group than in the low-stress group. Participants in the high-stress group associated their concept of self with the concept of anxiety more strongly than did those in the low-stress group. This result suggests that the IAT is a sensitive measure for detecting group differences in acute stress. |
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