Attentional Control and Suppressing Negative Thought Intrusions in Pathological Worry.
Attentional Control and Suppressing Negative Thought Intrusions in Pathological Worry.
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10.1177/2167702615575878
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2015-07-01
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Mouchlianitis E
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Fox E;Dutton K;Yates A;Georgiou GA;Mouchlianitis E
适应性行为依赖于有效地忽略无关信息的能力，这是注意力控制的一个重要组成部分。目前的研究发现，忽视无关材料的基本困难与焦虑倾向的性格差异有关，这表明高度焦虑者的注意力控制存在核心缺陷。在忧虑评估任务中，注意力控制缺陷程度与抑制消极思想入侵的困难程度相关。利用侧卫任务的认知训练程序试图改善注意力控制。尽管认知训练在很大程度上是无效的，但注意力控制的改善与抑制与担忧相关的思想入侵的能力的提高有关。在两项研究中，研究结果表明，无法控制与担忧相关的负面思想入侵与注意力控制的普遍缺陷有关。
Adaptive behavior relies on the ability to effectively and efficiently ignore irrelevant information, an important component of attentional control. The current research found that fundamental difficulties in ignoring irrelevant material are related to dispositional differences in trait propensity to worry, suggesting a core deficit in attentional control in high worriers. The degree of deficit in attentional control correlated with the degree of difficulty in suppressing negative thought intrusions in a worry assessment task. A cognitive training procedure utilizing a flanker task was used in an attempt to improve attentional control. Although the cognitive training was largely ineffective, improvements in attentional control were associated with improvements in the ability to suppress worry-related thought intrusions. Across two studies, the findings indicate that the inability to control worry-related negative thought intrusions is associated with a general deficiency in attentional control.