Attention bias towards negative emotional information and its relationship with daily worry in the context of acute stress: An eye-tracking study.

ABSTRACT: Cognitive theories of anxiety psychopathology cite biased attention towards threat as a central vulnerability and maintaining factor. However, many studies have found threat bias indices to have poor reliability and have failed to observe the theorized relationship between threat bias and anxiety symptoms; this may be due to the non-unitary nature of threat bias and the influence of state-level variables on its expression. Accumulating data suggests that state anxious mood is important for the robust expression of threat bias and for relations to emerge between threat bias and symptoms, though this possibility has not been experimentally tested. Eye-tracking was used to assess multiple forms of threat bias (i.e., early vigilance, sustained attention, facilitated engagement, delayed disenga

SUBMITTER: Macatee RJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5346289 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature