ICPS
2021 APS Virtual Convention · 2021
Traumatic Experiences, Sleep Quality, and Emotional Processing in Anxious Adults
- 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