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The Influence of State Anxiety and Working Memory Capacity on Attention Control of High-level Athletes

Tianrui Xue , Tao Lyu , Tao Xue , Miao Yu , Tingting Fu , Hao Guo

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Objective: The current study distinguishes study participants with low and high working memory capacity (WMC) (state anxiety), manipulating state anxiety situations in order to test the interference effect of state anxiety on attention control and the promotion of high WMC on attention control.

Method: This study used a two-factor mixed design. The independent variable within the group is state anxiety (low, high), and the independent variable between the groups is WMC (low, high). The dependent variable is the level of attention control (Incubation period, saccade error rate). The covariate is trait anxiety (T-AI score).

Results: The main effect of state anxiety is significant and the main effect of WMC is significant, but the interaction between the two is not significant.

Conclusion: The benefit of WMC for attention control is cross-situational stability, and the key to attention control ability may, potentially, be working memory

Keywords: state anxiety; working memory capacity; attention control,.

María Dolores Molina Poveda, Eduardo Galak

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The advent of cinema brought with it its use as a propaganda device with which to transmit ideals and doctrines. As a result, newsreels and cinema documentaries were born with the aim of showing the «most relevant» news of the country and abroad, the former with a shorter duration. In this study, the Spanish NO-DO and «Sucesos Argentinos» are used as primary sources to interpret the images and imaginaries that were projected between 1943 and 1955 on female physical culture. The intention is to understand the official discourse of both political regimes on what Argentinean and Spanish society should be like, especially by questioning those meanings about women. In total, 69 issues of NO-DO and 14 editions of «Sucesos Argentinos» have been found which aim to show female physical culture in this period. The female physical culture shown in both newsreels was aimed at strengthening women’s bodies so that they could carry out their «natural functions» (mother, wife, housewife), as well as highlighting their «inferiority» in relation to men through lower impact activities and the homogenization of bodies through clothing, and the performance of the same exercises in synchrony. And all this in countries with different regimes, but which, in the end, coincided.

Keywords:
female physical culture, NO-DO, Sucesos Argentinos, propaganda, audio-visual images

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