Attentional Control of Emotional Distraction in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
Attentional Control of Emotional Distraction in Rapid Serial Visual Presentation
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DOI：
10.1037/a0014507
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发表时间：
2009-02-01
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影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Lawrence, Andrew D.
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作者：
Peers, Polly V.;Lawrence, Andrew D.
气质研究强调了注意力控制在情绪调节中的重要性，并将其作为精神病理学的预测指标。情绪障碍的一个关键特征是对情绪分心的敏感性增强。虽然许多研究考察了焦虑的个体差异对情绪干扰物的干扰效应的影响，但注意力控制的个体差异在很大程度上被忽视了。在这里，我们考察了健康志愿者在自我报告的焦虑和注意力控制方面的个体差异对快速连续视觉呈现过程中情绪或中性面孔分心因素先于中性面孔目标而引起的分心的相对贡献。与注意力控制较差的参与者相比，注意力控制较好的参与者较少受到中性和情绪分心因素的影响。在注意力控制不良的个体中，与中性分心因素相比，情绪性分心障碍更明显。相反，状态焦虑与情绪分心的增加无关。我们的发现表明，注意力控制机制在最小化情绪分心的影响方面具有保护性作用。
Temperament research has highlighted the importance of attentional control in both emotion regulation and as a predictor of psychopathology. Enhanced susceptibility to emotional distraction is a key feature of mood disturbance. Whereas many studies have examined the influence of individual differences in anxiety on the disruptive effects of emotional distractors, individual differences in attentional control have been largely neglected. Here we examine, within healthy volunteers, the relative contributions of individual differences in self-reported anxiety and attentional control to distractibility caused by emotional or neutral faces distractors occurring prior to neutral face targets during rapid serial visual presentation. Participants with good attentional control were less affected by both neutral and emotional distractors than participants with poorer attentional control. More pronounced distraction deficits were seen for emotional relative to neutral distractors in individuals with poor attentional control. In contrast state anxiety was not associated with increased emotional distraction. Our findings suggest a protective role of attentional control mechanisms in minimizing the influence of emotional distraction.