Eye-Tracking Based Visual Search Training in Social Anxiety: Effects on Attentional Bias, Attentional Control, Gaze Behavior, and Anxious Responses to a Speech Task

IF 2.8 3区 心理学 Q2 PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL
Ting-Xun Li, Chi-Wen Liang
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Abstract

Background

Attentional bias modification (ABM) is a computerized treatment for anxiety. Most ABMs using a dot-probe task aim to direct anxious individuals’ attention away from threats. Recently, a new ABM approach using a visual search task (i.e., ABM-positive-search) has been developed to facilitate the allocation of attention toward positive stimuli. This study examined the efficacies of two versions of ABM-positive-search in socially anxious individuals.

Methods

Eighty-six participants were randomly assigned to the search positive in threat (SP-T; n = 28), search positive in neutral (SP-N; n = 29), or control training (CT) (n = 29) group. All participants completed four training sessions within two weeks. Attentional bias, attentional control, self-report social anxiety, and anxiety responses (i.e., subjective anxiety, psychophysiological reactivity, and gaze behavior) to the speech task were assessed pre-training and post-training.

Results

Results showed that ABM-positive-search trainings facilitated disengagement from threats compared to CT. Regardless of group, participants exhibited a reduction in attention allocation to negative feedback during speech. However, only SP-N increased attention allocation to positive feedback. Participants in three groups showed a decrease in subjective anxiety but no changes in psychophysiological reactivity to speech challenge from pre-training to post-training. ABM-positive-search trainings had no beneficial effects on attentional control or self-report social anxiety when compared with CT.

Conclusions

The findings do not support the efficacy of ABM-positive-search trainings for social anxiety.

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社交焦虑中基于眼动跟踪的视觉搜索训练:对注意力偏差、注意力控制、凝视行为和言语任务中焦虑反应的影响
背景注意偏差修正(ABM)是一种治疗焦虑症的计算机化疗法。大多数 ABM 采用点探测任务,旨在引导焦虑者的注意力远离威胁。最近,一种使用视觉搜索任务(即 ABM-积极搜索)的新 ABM 方法被开发出来,以促进将注意力分配到积极刺激上。本研究考察了两种版本的ABM-积极搜索在社交焦虑者中的效果。方法86名参与者被随机分配到威胁搜索积极组(SP-T;n = 28)、中性搜索积极组(SP-N;n = 29)或对照训练组(CT)(n = 29)。所有参与者都在两周内完成了四次训练。结果结果表明,与 CT 相比,ABM 积极搜索训练有助于脱离威胁。无论是哪一组,参与者在言语过程中对负面反馈的注意力分配都有所减少。然而,只有 SP-N 增加了对积极反馈的注意力分配。从训练前到训练后,三组参与者的主观焦虑都有所下降,但对言语挑战的心理生理反应却没有变化。与 CT 相比,ABM-积极搜索训练对注意力控制或自我报告的社交焦虑没有有益的影响。
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Cognitive Therapy and Research
Cognitive Therapy and Research PSYCHOLOGY, CLINICAL-
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期刊介绍: Cognitive Therapy and Research (COTR) focuses on the investigation of cognitive processes in human adaptation and adjustment and cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT). It is an interdisciplinary journal welcoming submissions from diverse areas of psychology, including cognitive, clinical, developmental, experimental, personality, social, learning, affective neuroscience, emotion research, therapy mechanism, and pharmacotherapy.
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