ICPS

2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021

Traumatic Experiences, Sleep Quality, and Emotional Processing in Anxious Adults

Virtual · May 2021

Posters · Clinical Science

  • Jaime Blackmon
    UConn Storrs
  • Erin Beckham
    University of Connecticut
  • Dean Cruess
    University of Connecticut

Abstract

A sample of highly-anxious adults completed the Emotional Stroop Task before completing measures of trauma exposure and sleep quality. Sleep quality was partially explained by number of traumatic events, and analyses revealed that poor sleepers took significantly longer to complete anxiety- and positive- word lists.

Stress