Association between anxiety, stress, and cognition in middle‐aged adults: Exploratory factor analysis across multiple anxiety and stress measures
Ivana Chan, Yen Ying Lim, Paul Maruff · 2025
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Anxiety in midlife may forecast trouble with memory, but 'anxiety' bundles several different feelings. Ivana Chan and co-authors pull the bundle apart. They factor-analyzed items from three standard anxiety and stress questionnaires, answered by nearly twenty-five hundred healthy middle-aged adults. Cognitive testing came from a validated brief battery.
Five strands emerged: over-reactivity, panic, low control, tension, and intolerance. Panic-related symptoms stood out, linking to both poorer attention and poorer memory. People with meaningful anxiety, alone or with stress, also remembered less well. The authors caution that a single snapshot cannot show which comes first. Still, the panic strand flags itself as the one to watch in studies of who declines.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Ivana Chan, Yen Ying Lim, Paul Maruff |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 2 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |