The effects of tourniquet pain on attention bias towards pain-related words and its gender difference
10.3760/cma.j.issn.1674-6554.2012.05.017
- VernacularTitle:加压疼痛对健康人群疼痛相关字词注意偏向的影响及其性别差异
- Author:
Yanlin LUO
;
Xueyan FENG
;
Yaqi SHI
;
Mengqi HAN
;
Song HAN
;
Junfa LI
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
Pain;
Attentional bias;
Pain-relative words;
Social-threat words
- From:
Chinese Journal of Behavioral Medicine and Brain Science
2012;21(5):440-442
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
ObjectiveTo investigate the effect and gender differences of experimental moderate pain on attentional bias towards pain-related words.MethodsWith the tourniquet around the left upper limb,32 healthy college students were asked to perform two dot-probe tasks including five kinds of pain-related words,one task with the tourniquet deflating and the other task with the tourniquet inflating to 200 mm Hg pressure.The reaction time (RT) and the error rate of recognition task were recorded.The pain intensity and distress were recorded too.Results ( 1 ) Compared with no pain condition ( RT of affective and social-threat words were (507 ± 78 ) ms,(504 ±89 )ms respectively),the react time was shorter in female in the condition of tourniquet pain,particularly for affective and social-threat words (the RT were (464 ± 79 )ms,(465 ± 72 )ms respectively,F ( 1,4) =19.157,P ＜0.01 ),but not in male.( 2 ) In condition of no pain,the reaction time of male ( (456 ± 59) ms ) was shorter than that of female (504 ± 79ms).However,in the condition of pain,the significant main effect was not found.ConclusionThe reacting time of female was shorter in condition of moderate tourniquet pain,which imply that female showed significant attentional bias towards affective and social-threat words.
