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Is prospective memory related to depression and anxiety? A hierarchical MPT modelling approach
Nina R Arnold1, Ute J Bayen1, Mateja F Böhm1
1a Institute for Experimental Psychology , Heinrich-Heine-Universität Düsseldorf , Düsseldorf , Germany.
Abstract:
Prospective memory (PM) refers to remembering to perform an action in the future. One hundred and twenty-nine students completed a laboratory event-based PM task as well as depression and anxiety questionnaires. The data were analysed with the beta-MPT version of the multinomial processing tree model of event-based PM. Thereby, the prospective and retrospective components of PM were estimated for each participant and were then correlated with depression and anxiety. State anxiety was negatively correlated with the prospective component of PM. Neither depression nor trait anxiety were related to either component of PM.
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