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Recent life stress exposure is associated with poorer long-term memory, working memory, and self-reported memory

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Shields, Grant S., Doty, Dominique, Shields, Rebecca H., Gower, Garrett, Slavich, George M., Yonelinas, Andrew P.·2017·Stress
DOI 10.1080/10253890.2017.1380620PMC PMC6462145
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Although substantial research has examined the effects of stress on cognition, much of this research has focused on acute stress (e.g. manipulated in the laboratory) or chronic stress (e.g. persistent interpersonal or financial difficulties). In contrast, the effects of recent life stress on cognition have been relatively understudied. To address this issue, we examined how recent life stress is associated with long-term, working memory, and self-reported memory in a sample of 142 healthy young adults who were assessed at two time points over a two-week period. Recent life stress was measured using the newly-developed Stress and Adversity Inventory for Daily Stress (Daily STRAIN), which assesses the frequency of relatively common stressful life events and difficulties over the preceding two weeks. To assess memory performance, participants completed both long-term and working memory tasks. Participants also provided self-reports of memory problems. As hypothesized, greater recent life stress exposure was associated with worse performance on measures of long-term and working memory, as well as more self-reported memory problems. These associations were largely robust while controlling for possible confounds, including participants' age, sex, and negative affect. The findings indicate that recent life stress exposure is broadly associated with worse memory. Future studies should thus consider assessing recent life stress as a potential predictor, moderator, or covariate of memory performance.

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  • Cumulative life stress measured with the STRAIN has been associated with worse health, including poor self-reported physical health, impaired cognitive functioning, and greater cancer-related depression and fatigue.

    “Cumulative life stress measured with the STRAIN has so far been associated with worse health, including poor self-reported physical health (Toussaint et al., 2016), impaired cognitive functioning (Goldfarb et al., 2017; Shields et al., 2017), and greater cancer-related depression and fatigue (Bower et al., 2014; Dooley et al., 2017).”

    From More than a feeling: A unified view of stress measurement for population science (2018) · cites this paper as Shields et al., 2017

    Shields et al. support the cognitive-functioning part: the Discussion reports that greater recent life stress was associated with worse working and long-term memory. But the Methods specify that this study used the Daily STRAIN to measure stress over two weeks, not the original STRAIN measure of cumulative lifetime stress. The physical-health and cancer-related outcomes have other citations in the citing sentence and are not attributed to Shields et al. (LLM, conf=0.88)

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Authors
Shields, G. S., Doty, D., Shields, R. H., Gower, G., Slavich, G. M., & Yonelinas, A. P.
Affiliations
  • University of California, Davis (US)
  • University of Idaho (US)
  • University of California, Los Angeles (US)
Corresponding author
Shields, Grant S.
ORCID
Venue
Stress
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2017-10-12
Volume
20
Issue
6
Pages
598-607
ISSN
  • 1025-3890 (ISSN-L)
  • 1607-8888
DOI
10.1080/10253890.2017.1380620
PMC
PMC6462145
OpenAlex
W2761548182
Cited by
71
References
51
Citations by year
2026: 8 · 2025: 8 · 2024: 8 · 2023: 8 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 5 · 2020: 8 · 2019: 17 · 2018: 5
FWCI
4.46
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
Locations
  • Stress (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
  • eScholarship (California Digital Library) (submittedVersion)
Funders
  • National Eye Institute (EY025999)
  • NARSAD (23958)
  • Brain and Behavior Research Foundation
  • National Institutes of Health (K08 MH103443)
Topics
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Behavioral Neuroscience › Stress Responses and Cortisol
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Memory Processes and Influences
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Identity, Memory, and Therapy
Keywords
daily stress, long-term memory, working memory, stress and cognition, young adults, negative affect
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Cognition, Female, Humans, Male, Memory, Memory Disorders, Memory, Short-Term, Mental Recall, Stress, Psychological, Task Performance and Analysis, Young Adult, Self Report, Memory, Long-Term

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