It has been established that persistent anxiety and stress can have a negative impact on intellectual capacity. Paying attention is an essential mental function that is required in a variety of settings, including professional and personal affairs. The networks of the brain that are responsible for alerting, executive control, and orientation are all susceptible to the negative effects that arise from prolonged exposure to stress. The purpose of this study is to investigate the effects that continuous psychosocial stress in real life has on several different attention networks. In general, the group that was under stress had faster response times compared to the group that was not under stress, and this was true regardless of the target and cue conditions that were present. Every circumstance was handled with the same level of accuracy by both teams. In each of the three measures that measure attention networks, there was not a statistically significant difference seen between the two groups. Within the group that was under stress, a strong positive association was discovered between the alerting and orienting networks, while a significant negative correlation was seen between the two networks.

Stress, Anxiety, Developmental Disorders, Intellectual Ability