title: The relationship between cognitive failure and self-focused attention.
abstract: The Cognitive Failures Questionnaire and the Self-Consciousness Scale were administered to a sample of undergraduate students. The Private Self-Consciousness and Social Anxiety subscales were significantly correlated with CFQ, suggesting that dispositional self-focused attention may be one underlying cause of cognitive failure. Similarities in the relation between CFQ, SCS and task performance are discussed.
authors.affiliation: Institute of Social and Applied Psychology, University of Kent at Canterbury, UK.
authors.forename: D M
authors.initials: DM
authors.lastname: Houston
mesh_terms: D000124:Achievement; D001288:Attention; D003072:Cognition Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D011581:Psychological Tests; D012649:Self Concept