The scale consists of five questions about frequency of anxiety, severity of anxiety, avoidance, interference with tasks and interference of social relationships.
By incorporating these manipulations in the employed task switching paradigm, we were not only able to investigate the efficiency of transient task-set updating and sustained task-set maintenance in ADHD adults, but also the influence of task preparation and interference on cognitive flexibility.
These studies converge with and extend an early meta-analysis that had identified 2 studies of BED, involving 2 differing impulsivity constructs measured using the stop signal task and Stroop interference task.
Both self-reported left-hand preference and left-hand superiority in baseline typing were associated with reduced interference on the cognitive task, and the reduced interference in those groups seemed to reflect relatively loose coupling between manual and cognitive tasks.
In the numerical task both facilitation and interference were significant in all groups.
Other theories suggest that active maintenance of goal-related information in WM biases task-relevant processing, which has the consequence of decreasing the presence of task-irrelevant information and interference caused by it [16], [18], [35].
Hence, in addition to working memory and fluid intelligence tasks, we also measured inhibition and interference tasks as well as standardized processing speed.
In this paper we review literature on cognitive and motor task interference and propose a new dual task taxonomy.
Behavioral results were consistent with the affective task dominance hypothesis: participants were slower to switch to the affective task, and cross-task interference was strongest when participants tried to switch from the affective to the non-affective task.
16 18 Job demand was assessed with five questions (Cronbach's α=0.73) dealing with pressures related to the job: work pace fast and time schedule tight, responsibility, conflicting demands regarding work tasks and responsibility, pressure and interference with the job by the supervisor, and pressure of failing or doing errors on the job.
