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Assessing acute stress with the Implicit Association Test.

Hirotsune Sato¹, Jun-ichiro Kawahara

¹National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technology, Tsukuba, Japan. jun.kawahara@aist.go.jp

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The Implicit Association Test (IAT) effectively measures acute stress by detecting stronger self-anxiety associations in stressed individuals, offering a bias-free alternative to questionnaires.

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Psychology
Social Psychology
Cognitive Psychology

Background:

Self-report questionnaires for acute stress are susceptible to social desirability bias.
Previous research (Schmukle & Egloff, 2004) did not detect acute stress using the Implicit Association Test (IAT).

Purpose of the Study:

To evaluate the Implicit Association Test (IAT) as a bias-free method for assessing acute stress.
To investigate if manipulated test anxiety and self-esteem threat influence IAT stress detection.

Main Methods:

Employed the Implicit Association Test (IAT) to measure stress without self-report bias.
Induced acute stress by creating test anxiety and threatening participants' self-esteem.

Main Results:

The IAT effect was significantly larger in the high-stress group compared to the low-stress group.
Individuals in the high-stress group exhibited stronger associations between the self and anxiety concepts.

Conclusions:

The Implicit Association Test (IAT) demonstrates sensitivity in detecting group differences in acute stress.
The IAT provides a valuable, bias-free tool for psychological stress assessment.