The importance of conative factors for individual differences in attention control.

IF 2.2 2区心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY

Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition Pub Date : 2024-06-24 DOI:10.1037/xlm0001356

Nash Unsworth, Ashley L Miller

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Abstract

Relations between conative factors (task-specific motivation, attention self-efficacy, and self-set goals) and individual differences in attention control (AC) performance were investigated in two latent variable studies. Participants performed AC tasks along with measures of working memory and processing speed. During the AC tasks, participants self-reported their motivation, self-efficacy, and self-set goals for the tasks. Task-unrelated thoughts were also assessed. Confirmatory factor analyses demonstrated that latent factors for the constructs could be formed and the conative factors were each related to the AC factor. Structural equation modeling further suggested that the conative factors tended to account for unique variance in attention, even after accounting for shared variance with working memory and processing speed. These results provide evidence that conative factors are important for individual differences in AC and further suggest that multiple factors likely contribute to variation in performance on AC tasks. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

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内涵因素对注意力控制个体差异的重要性。

在两项潜变量研究中，研究人员调查了意向因素（特定任务动机、注意力自我效能感和自我设定目标）与注意力控制（AC）表现的个体差异之间的关系。参与者在完成注意力控制任务的同时，还进行了工作记忆和处理速度的测量。在完成注意力控制任务期间，受试者自我报告了他们的动机、自我效能感和自我设定的任务目标。此外，还对与任务无关的想法进行了评估。确认性因素分析表明，可以形成这些建构的潜在因素，并且每一个内涵因素都与交流因素相关。结构方程建模进一步表明，即使考虑了与工作记忆和处理速度之间的共同差异，内省因素仍倾向于解释注意力的独特差异。这些结果证明，内省因素对AC的个体差异非常重要，并进一步表明，多种因素可能会导致AC任务中的表现差异。(PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, 版权所有）。

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Journal of Experimental Psychology-Learning Memory and Cognition 医学-心理学

CiteScore

4.30

自引率

3.80%

发文量

163

审稿时长

4-8 weeks

期刊介绍： The Journal of Experimental Psychology: Learning, Memory, and Cognition publishes studies on perception, control of action, perceptual aspects of language processing, and related cognitive processes.