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Korean Journal of Psychology: General

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Time-course of attentional bias for threatening stimulus in anxiety-prone individual

Korean Journal of Psychology: General / Korean Journal of Psychology: General, (P)1229-067X; (E)2734-1127
2007, v.26 no.2, pp.207-223


& (2007). Time-course of attentional bias for threatening stimulus in anxiety-prone individual. Korean Journal of Psychology: General, 26(2), 207-223.

Abstract

The purpose of present study is to examine the time－course of attentional biases(the one of cognitive characteristics of high－anxious individuals) in highly anxious individuals. A modified version of the probe detection task was used to investigate the time course of attentional bias for emotional words in high and low socially anxious individuals. Word pairs were presented two exposure durations, 500 and 1250msec, in order to investigate the characteristics of attentional bias in anxiety. There was evidence of an attentional bias favouring initial vigilance towards social threat words and subsequent avoidance of all emotional words in high socially anxious individuals. In contrast, low socially anxious individuals did not exhibit an attentional preference. Finally, individuals with high anxiety show an attentional bias for their anxiety relevant to threat stimuli(selectively attend to threatening material that is specifically relevant to their anxiety.). If they are exposed with people at the same situation, they will show more detection and awareness than the people. It means that their arousal is elevated. Besides, these attentional bias presents avoidance response in long time. The Avoidance response increases anxiety rather than safety individual from threat stimuli. These findings suggest that socially anxious individuals are likely to use maladjustive strategies which lead to avoidance not only of threat stimuli but also of non－threat stimuli.

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사회 불안, 주의편향, 경계, 회피, social anxiety, attentional bias, vigilance, avoidance

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