Citation

Prins PJ, Hanewald GJ. J. Consult. Clin. Psychol. 1999; 67(3): 435-439.

Affiliation

Department of Clinical Psychology, University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands. kp_prins@macmail.psy.uva.nl

Copyright

(Copyright © 1999, American Psychological Association)

DOI

unavailable

PMID

10369065

Abstract

The present study addressed the as-yet-unresolved issue of whether coping self-talk facilitates or interferes with effective task performance. Tests of the relationship between coping cognition and task performance are reported when potentially confounding relationships of negative cognition and task performance are controlled. The results indicate that coping self-talk of high-anxious children was positively correlated with negative thoughts but did not contribute significantly to performance. Implications for the functional value of coping self-talk are discussed.

Language: en