Sad mood and poor sleep are related to task-unrelated thoughts and experience of diminished cognitive control.

ABSTRACT: Previous studies have indicated that a sad mood and sleep deprivation increase mind wandering, but it is unclear whether these associations reflect reduced effort in concentrating on the task at hand or diminished cognitive control. In an internet-based experiment, participants completed a sleep disturbance questionnaire followed by a complex span task and a 2-back task with thought-sampling probes. Subsequently, participants underwent a positive, neutral, or negative mood induction prior to repeating the 2-back. The results (N = 504) replicated the finding of increased task-unrelated thoughts following sad mood induction, B = 0.56 (SE = 0.14), p < 0.01, d = 0.31. Unguided thoughts were increased following sad mood induction, B = 0.31 (0.13), p = 0.02, but working memory did not significan

SUBMITTER: Marcusson-Clavertz D 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7265482 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature