@article{ref1,
title="Motivational effects of anxiety on psychomotor performance",
journal="Perceptual and motor skills",
year="1994",
author="Payne, R. B. and Corley, T. J.",
volume="79",
number="3",
pages="1507-1521",
abstract="The Hull-Spence theory of anxiety drive (A) was tested in a psychomotor learning situation in which both correct responses (R+) and competing responses (R-) were evoked by the task. Measures of A-Trait and A-State were obtained from 151 women and 52 men, all of whom were then exposed to a sequence of 16 trials on a mirror-tracking task presented either continuously or with 2-min. intertrial intervals. Analyses of the effects of A were then performed on samples of 68 women and 16 men drawn from the tails of the A distributions. Theoretical predictions about the effects of A on initial scores and performance trends of both R+ and R- were strongly supported, somewhat more so within the A-State classification than within the A-Trait classification owing to the larger amount of variance accounted for. Analyses involving intermediate levels of A showed that R+ was a monotonic and essentially linear function of A.<p /><p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0031-5125",
doi="",
url="http://dx.doi.org/"
}