Cognitive Failures: Relationship with Perceived Emotions, Stress, and Resting Vagally-Mediated Heart Rate Variability

Min You, Sylvain Laborde, Uirassu Borges, Robert Samuel Vaughan and Fabrice Dosseville
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Min You: EA 3918 CERREV, UFR Psychologie, Université de Caen Normandie, 14000 Caen, France
Sylvain Laborde: Department of Performance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany
Uirassu Borges: Department of Performance Psychology, Institute of Psychology, German Sport University Cologne, 50933 Cologne, Germany
Robert Samuel Vaughan: School of Education, Language, and Psychology, York St John University, York YO31 7EX, UK
Fabrice Dosseville: UMR-S 1075 COMETE, INSERM, Normandie Université, 14000 Caen, France

Sustainability, 2021, vol. 13, issue 24, 1-11

Abstract: Cognitive failures represent everyday task failures that individuals are normally capable of completing. While cognitive failures measured with the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire can be considered a trait, the psychophysiological states associated with cognitive failures are yet to be fully understood. The aim of this paper was to investigate the extent to which the perception of experiencing cognitive failures in daily life is associated with both psychological (i.e., perceived emotional valence, emotional intensity, and stress), as well as physiological (i.e., vagally-mediated heart rate variability, vmHRV) variables. A total of 69 participants were involved in this study (47 male, 22 female; Mage = 22.4 years). Participants underwent a 5-min heart rate variability measurement and filled out the self-report psychological variables, before completing the Cognitive Failures Questionnaire, providing scores for Distractibility, Forgetfulness, and False Triggering. When combining the predictors together into a hierarchical regression analysis, only the model related to the Distractibility subscale was found to be significant (unique significant negative predictor: resting vmHRV). Further research should investigate whether influencing resting vmHRV, with interventions such as slow-paced breathing, may decrease the perception of cognitive failures related to distractibility.

Keywords: cognition; executive function; emotion; stress; heart rate variability; cardiac vagal activity; RMSSD (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: O13 Q Q0 Q2 Q3 Q5 Q56 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2021
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