scholarly journals Processing of affective words in adolescent PTSD—Attentional bias toward social threat

2019 ◽  
Vol 56 (11) ◽  
Author(s):  
Fabian Klein ◽  
Sebastian Schindler ◽  
Frank Neuner ◽  
Rita Rosner ◽  
Babette Renneberg ◽  
...  
2009 ◽  
Vol 22 (1) ◽  
pp. 57-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Erik G. Helzer ◽  
Jennifer K. Connor-Smith ◽  
Marjorie A. Reed

Pain ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 152 (5) ◽  
pp. 1061-1067 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joy E. Beck ◽  
Tricia A. Lipani ◽  
Kari F. Baber ◽  
Lynette Dufton ◽  
Judy Garber ◽  
...  

2017 ◽  
Vol 45 (8) ◽  
pp. 1293-1304 ◽  
Author(s):  
Shen Liu ◽  
Lin Zhang ◽  
Qun Tan ◽  
Yanlin Zhao ◽  
Qiang Xu

We investigated the attentional characteristics of 98 Chinese college students when they received social threat cues in explicit and ambiguous rejection situations, and further examined the moderating effect of degree of rejection sensitivity. Participants were instructed to play an interactive game in pairs, after which they completed the Rejection Sensitivity Questionnaire for College Students and, finally, a dot-probe task. The results showed that all participants had an attentional bias toward social rejection cues in both social rejection and general situations. In the ambiguous rejection situation, highly rejection-sensitive individuals showed attentional bias and tended to avoid social threat cues and nonsocial negative cues. Degree of rejection sensitivity moderated the relationship of ambiguous rejection, influencing individuals' attentional processing of threat cues. We sought to develop some specific interventions that could be used to alert highly rejection-sensitive college students to the characteristics of the attentional processing strategies they use for social avoidance.


2020 ◽  
Vol 63 (10) ◽  
pp. 3349-3363
Author(s):  
Naomi H. Rodgers ◽  
Jennifer Y. F. Lau ◽  
Patricia M. Zebrowski

Purpose The purpose of this study was to examine group and individual differences in attentional bias toward and away from socially threatening facial stimuli among adolescents who stutter and age- and sex-matched typically fluent controls. Method Participants included 86 adolescents (43 stuttering, 43 controls) ranging in age from 13 to 19 years. They completed a computerized dot-probe task, which was modified to allow for separate measurement of attentional engagement with and attentional disengagement from facial stimuli (angry, fearful, neutral expressions). Their response time on this task was the dependent variable. Participants also completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) and provided a speech sample for analysis of stuttering-like behaviors. Results The adolescents who stutter were more likely to engage quickly with threatening faces than to maintain attention on neutral faces, and they were also more likely to disengage quickly from threatening faces than to maintain attention on those faces. The typically fluent controls did not show any attentional preference for the threatening faces over the neutral faces in either the engagement or disengagement conditions. The two groups demonstrated equivalent levels of social anxiety that were both, on average, very close to the clinical cutoff score for high social anxiety, although degree of social anxiety did not influence performance in either condition. Stuttering severity did not influence performance among the adolescents who stutter. Conclusion This study provides preliminary evidence for a vigilance–avoidance pattern of attentional allocation to threatening social stimuli among adolescents who stutter.


Author(s):  
Mitchell R. P. LaPointe ◽  
Rachael Cullen ◽  
Bianca Baltaretu ◽  
Melissa Campos ◽  
Natalie Michalski ◽  
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