Attentional heterogeneity in social anxiety disorder: Evidence from Hidden Markov Models.

ABSTRACT: There is some evidence for heterogeneity in attentional processes among individuals with social anxiety. However, there is limited work considering how attentional processes may differ as a mechanism in a naturalistic task-based context (e.g., public speaking). In this secondary analysis we tested attentional heterogeneity among individuals diagnosed with social anxiety disorder (N = 21) in the context of a virtual reality exposure treatment study. Participants completed a public speaking challenge in an immersive 360°-video virtual reality environment with eye tracking at pre-treatment, post-treatment, and at 1-week follow-up. Using a Hidden Markov Model (HMM) approach with clustering we tested whether there were distinct profiles of attention pre-treatment and whether there were changes

SUBMITTER: Rubin M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10872338 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature