Patterns of Attentional Bias of Highly Anxious Individuals by Repeating the Occasions of Word Stimulus
- VernacularTitle:高焦虑个体对威胁性词语的注意偏向及习惯化
- Author:
Xinghua LIU
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- Keywords:
anxiety;
dot probe task;
attentional bias;
laboratory study
- From:
Chinese Mental Health Journal
2002;0(11):-
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
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Abstract:
Objective:This study aimed to investigate the pattern of anxiety-related attentional bias for threaten- ing words in subjects with high-and low-trait anxiety by repeating the occasions of stimulus exposures.Methods:High (upper 25%)and low(lower 25%)anxious individuals(N=24 and N=23 respectively)participated in a forced- choice reaction time version of a modified dot-probe task.There were 48 negative-neutral word pairs chosen as stimuli. Each word pairs were presented eight occasions in different blocks,and at each occasion the attentional bias to the e- motionally negative word was examined.Results:High anxious individuals showed initial selective attention to the neg- ative words when they were presented for the first occasion(t=2.34,P
