TY - JOUR
T1 - Emotion-congruent attentional biases
T2 - The perspective of hierarchical models of emotional disorders
AU - Yovel, Iftah
AU - Mineka, Susan
PY - 2005/3
Y1 - 2005/3
N2 - Using the rationale of current hierarchical models of anxiety and depression, this study examined relationships between common and specific factors of these syndromes and emotion-congruent attentional biases. Participants (n = 72) performed an emotional Stroop task, in which anxiety- and depression-related as well as neutral non-valenced words were presented both supra- and subliminally. The anxiety-related general distress scale, but not specific anxiety scales, correlated significantly with the anxiety-related subliminal bias. A partial correlational analysis showed that this relationship was independent of scores on depression-related scales. In agreement with most previous findings, no depression-related attentional biases were found. As expected for sub-clinical populations none of the scales was associated with any supraliminal attentional bias.
AB - Using the rationale of current hierarchical models of anxiety and depression, this study examined relationships between common and specific factors of these syndromes and emotion-congruent attentional biases. Participants (n = 72) performed an emotional Stroop task, in which anxiety- and depression-related as well as neutral non-valenced words were presented both supra- and subliminally. The anxiety-related general distress scale, but not specific anxiety scales, correlated significantly with the anxiety-related subliminal bias. A partial correlational analysis showed that this relationship was independent of scores on depression-related scales. In agreement with most previous findings, no depression-related attentional biases were found. As expected for sub-clinical populations none of the scales was associated with any supraliminal attentional bias.
KW - Anxiety
KW - Cognitive processes
KW - Models
KW - Selective attention
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=12144268234&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.003
DO - 10.1016/j.paid.2004.06.003
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AN - SCOPUS:12144268234
SN - 0191-8869
VL - 38
SP - 785
EP - 795
JO - Personality and Individual Differences
JF - Personality and Individual Differences
IS - 4
ER -