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  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Developmental Psychology
  • Educational Psychology

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  • Limited understanding of the temporal dynamics in cognition-emotion relationships.
  • Cross-sectional data suggest anxiety/worry can impair working memory (WM).
  • Higher WM capacity may mitigate negative effects of worry.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate stability and change in cognition-emotion relationships over time.
  • To examine how these dynamic relationships impact problem-solving abilities.
  • To identify distinct subgroups based on cognition-emotion stability/change patterns.

Main Methods:

  • Latent transition analysis applied to longitudinal data.
  • Assessment of algebraic working memory (WM) and worry levels in 126 adolescents (14-year-olds).
  • Data collected twice within a single day before an algebraic problem-solving test.

Main Results:

  • Identified six distinct subgroups varying in WM, worry, and stability/change.
  • A stable high WM/low worry subgroup demonstrated optimal performance.
  • Subgroups with high WM/high worry and moderate WM/low worry transitioned to low WM states.
  • An "unstable across time" low WM/high worry subgroup performed worst.

Conclusions:

  • Cognition-emotion relationship dynamics over time significantly predict problem-solving performance.
  • Assessing temporal variations in cognition-emotion relationships is crucial, beyond static measures.
  • Individual differences in stability and change patterns offer insights into academic achievement.