On the separability of cognitive abilities related to Posner's attention components. And their contributions to conceptually distinct attention abilities related to working memory, action theory, and psychometric assessment.

Autor/inn/en	Goldhammer, Frank; Moosbrugger, Helfried; Schweizer, Karl
Titel	On the separability of cognitive abilities related to Posner's attention components. And their contributions to conceptually distinct attention abilities related to working memory, action theory, and psychometric assessment.
Quelle	In: European psychologist, 12 (2007) 2, S. 103-118 PDF als Volltext Link als defekt meldenVerfügbarkeit
Beigaben	Literaturangaben
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	online; gedruckt; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1016-9040; 1878-531X
DOI	10.1027/1016-9040.12.2.103
Schlagwörter	Faktorenanalyse; Arbeitsgedächtnis; Aufmerksamkeit; Kognition; Konzentration (Psy); Psychomotorische Aktivität; Räumliche Wahrnehmung; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Faktorenanalyse; Kognition; Messung; Aufmerksamkeit; Aufmerksamkeitstest; Fokussierung; Arbeitsgedächtnis; Messung; Fokussierung
Abstract	The study investigates whether five often postulated attention abilities related to Posner's attention components (Posner & Boies, 1971; Posner & Rafal, 1987) - alertness, spatial attention, focused attention, attentional switching, and divided attention - represent empirically distinguishable cognitive mechanisms from an individual differences perspective, and to what extent these abilities contribute to conceptually distinct attention abilities related to working memory (Baddeley, 1986), action theory (Neumann, 1992), and psychometric assessment (e.g., Brickenkamp, 1994; Moosbrugger & Goldhammer, 2007). A total of 232 participants completed 12 attention tasks intended to measure the abilities of interest. First, confirmatory factor analyses (CFA) revealed that the five attention abilities based on Posner's work are moderately related, but clearly distinguishable. The proposed confirmatory factor model consists of one common and five specific attention ability factors. Second, structural equation modeling (SEM) indicated that these five specific attention abilities contribute differentially to attention abilities associated with working memory, action theory, and psychometric assessment, whereas the common factor contributes significantly to all of them. Especially, the results suggest that both divided attention and attentional switching are involved in action-oriented attention abilities as well as in attention abilities associated with psychometric assessment ("concentration") (Orig.).
Erfasst von	DIPF \| Leibniz-Institut für Bildungsforschung und Bildungsinformation, Frankfurt am Main
Update	2020/3