Attention Bias to Emotional Expression: Variations Based on Anxiety Tendency and Depression Tendency

IF 2.6 4区心理学 Q2 BEHAVIORAL SCIENCES

Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress Pub Date : 2023-06-30 DOI:10.17547/kjsr.2023.31.2.73

Yeongeun Kim, Yoonhyoung Lee, Jini Tae, Wonseok Lee

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Background: This study examined whether automatic attention bias toward emotional stimuli differs among individuals with varying anxiety and depression levels in the non-clinical population.Methods: A total of 494 participants from the community completed the Patient Health Questionnaire-9 (PHQ-9) and Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7). The dot-probe task was conducted to compare attention biases when emotional stimuli appeared before the target versus neutral stimuli did.Results: There were differences in attention bias based on the stimuli types, even among the non-clinical community. The anxiety tendency group showed attention bias towards positive expressions, while the depression tendency group showed attention bias toward negative expressions. The group with anxiety and depression tendencies showed mixed characteristics observed in both the anxiety and depression groups.Conclusions: This study showed that attention bias toward emotional stimuli is an information-processing bias influenced by an individual’s internal state. This study contributes to the understanding of attention bias differences among groups based on anxiety and depression tendencies in non-clinical population of various ages.

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情绪表达的注意偏向:基于焦虑倾向和抑郁倾向的变异

背景：这项研究考察了在非临床人群中，焦虑和抑郁程度不同的个体对情绪刺激的自动注意偏向是否不同。方法：来自社区的494名参与者完成了患者健康问卷-9（PHQ-9）和广泛性焦虑障碍-7（GAD-7）。点探针任务是为了比较情绪刺激出现在目标和中性刺激之前时的注意力偏差。结果：基于刺激类型的注意偏差存在差异，即使在非临床社区中也是如此。焦虑倾向组对积极表达表现出注意偏向，而抑郁倾向组对消极表达表现出关注偏向。有焦虑和抑郁倾向的组在焦虑和抑郁组中都表现出混合特征。结论：本研究表明，对情绪刺激的注意偏向是一种受个体内部状态影响的信息处理偏向。这项研究有助于理解不同年龄的非临床人群中基于焦虑和抑郁倾向的群体之间的注意力偏差差异。

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Stress-The International Journal on the Biology of Stress 医学-行为科学

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5.60

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6-12 weeks

期刊介绍： The journal Stress aims to provide scientists involved in stress research with the possibility of reading a more integrated view of the field. Peer reviewed papers, invited reviews and short communications will deal with interdisciplinary aspects of stress in terms of: the mechanisms of stressful stimulation, including within and between individuals; the physiological and behavioural responses to stress, and their regulation, in both the short and long term; adaptive mechanisms, coping strategies and the pathological consequences of stress. Stress will publish the latest developments in physiology, neurobiology, molecular biology, genetics research, immunology, and behavioural studies as they impact on the understanding of stress and its adverse consequences and their amelioration. Specific approaches may include transgenic/knockout animals, developmental/programming studies, electrophysiology, histochemistry, neurochemistry, neuropharmacology, neuroanatomy, neuroimaging, endocrinology, autonomic physiology, immunology, chronic pain, ethological and other behavioural studies and clinical measures.