Processing bias in anxious subjects and repressors, measured by emotional Stroop interference and attentional allocation
Processing bias in anxious subjects and repressors, measured by emotional Stroop interference and attentional allocation
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DOI：
10.1016/s0191-8869(98)00173-1
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发表时间：
1999-05-01
影响因子：
4.3
通讯作者：
Kindt, M
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作者：
Brosschot, JF;de Ruiter, C;Kindt, M
我们假设，压抑会表现出认知回避的威胁信息的注意部署任务，但在情绪干扰任务中的相同的信息的注意偏向，而高焦虑的主题将显示在这两个任务的威胁相关的偏见。采用改良Stroop任务和视觉探测任务（VPT），包括物理威胁词、社会威胁词、社会积极词和一般积极词。还研究了两种任务的反应之间的关系。结果表明，高状态焦虑与身体威胁词和社会威胁词的Stroop干扰有关，但Stroop干扰强度不高，且没有群体效应。相比之下，在VPT高特质焦虑的主题转移注意力只对社会威胁的话，特别是当这些话是在他们的注意力集中。没有涉及阻遏物组的差异。有一个小的积极的任务间关系的社会威胁相关的偏见。有人建议，情绪偏见的Stroop和VPT测量反映自动决策的认知资源分配在随后的阶段，在信息处理，越来越多的具体方面的情感信息被破译和使用。(C)1999 Elsevier Science Ltd.保留所有权利。
We hypothesized that repressors would show cognitive avoidance of threatening information in an attention deployment task, but an attentional bias for the same information in an emotional interference task, while high anxious subjects would show a threat-related bias on both tasks. A modified Stroop task and a visual probe task (VPT) were used, with physical threat words, social threat words, social positive words and general positive words. The relationship of the response to the two tasks was also investigated. The results showed that high state anxiety was related to greater Stroop interference of physical threat words as well as social words, both threat and positive, No group effects were found for the Stroop, in spite of sufficient power. In contrast, in the VPT high trait anxious subjects shifted attention only towards social threat words, especially when these words were presented outside their attentional focus. No difference involving the repressor group was present. There was a small positive inter-task relation for social threat-related bias. It is suggested that the emotional biases measured by the Stroop and the VPT reflect automatic decisions about cognitive resource allocation at subsequent phases in information processing, at which increasingly more specific aspects of the emotional information are deciphered and used. (C) 1999 Elsevier Science Ltd. All rights reserved.