title: Dissociation, cognitive failures, and working memory.
abstract: The relationships between two personality measures (dissociation and cognitive failures) and different measures of interference from secondary tasks for working memory are investigated. Although the personality and cognitive measures were correlated with one another, canonical and bivariate correlations revealed no systematic relationships between the personality measures and the working memory measures. The upper bounds of the confidence intervals showed that, at most, only 10% of the variance was shared. We discuss the implications for theories of dissociation and cognitive functioning.
authors.affiliation: Psychology Department, University of Sussex, UK. danw@sussex.ac.uk
authors.forename: Daniel B
authors.initials: DB
authors.lastname: Wright
authors.forename: Jessica E
authors.initials: JE
authors.lastname: Osborne
mesh_terms: D001288:Attention; D003071:Cognition; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D008182:Luria-Nebraska Neuropsychological Battery; D008568:Memory; D008569:Memory Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D008570:Memory, Short-Term; D008960:Models, Psychological; D010551:Personality; D010552:Personality Assessment; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires; D013647:Task Performance and Analysis