Attentional control as a moderator of the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and attentional threat bias

Bardeen, Joseph R.; Orcutt, Holly K.

doi:10.1016/j.janxdis.2011.06.009

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“…These results are in line with findings of Bardeen and Orcutt (2011) and Derryberry and Reed (2002). They found the inverse pattern of results in anxious individuals (Derryberry & Reed, 2002) and in individuals with symptoms of PTSD (Bardeen & Orcutt, 2011). However, since our results remain when we statistically accounted for symptoms of anxiety we were able to show that attentional bias to threat and attentional control are related to trait resilience and the associations were not due to symptoms of anxiety.…”

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“…When attentional control was low and individuals showed attentional avoidance of threat they showed heightened trait resilience whereas attentional allocation towards threat stimuli was associated with less trait resilience. These results are in line with findings of Bardeen and Orcutt (2011) and Derryberry and Reed (2002). They found the inverse pattern of results in anxious individuals (Derryberry & Reed, 2002) and in individuals with symptoms of PTSD (Bardeen & Orcutt, 2011).…”

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“…Eysenck, Derakshan, Santos, & Calvo, 2007;Metcalfe & Mischel, 1999) and related research (e.g. Bardeen & Orcutt, 2011;Derryberry & Reed, 2002;Schoorl et al, 2014) assumed that the balance of these systems is impaired by anxiety. Specifically, the efficiency of the attentional control system is supposed to be compromised by anxiety accompanied by an increased functioning of the stimulus-driven attentional process.…”

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“…In line with this, Verwoerd, Wessel, de Jong and Nieuwenhuis (2009) found in a laboratory study that attentional bias and attentional control were related in the prediction of intrusions after watching a trauma film. Furthermore, Orcutt (2011) andSchoorl, Putman, Van Der Werff, andVan Der Does (2014) found that the interaction of attentional control and symptoms of PTSD was associated with attentional bias to threat. Results of the study of Bardeen and Orcutt (2011) using general threat stimuli (whereas Schoorl et al (2014) used trauma-related stimuli) indicated that participants with strong AC and strong symptoms of PTSD showed attentional avoidance of threat whereas participants with poor AC and strong symptoms of PTSD showed an attentional bias towards threat.…”

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“…Bardeen and Orcutt (2011) found that low attentional control predicted bias in participants with higher posttraumatic stress symptoms. On the other hand, Schoorl, Putman, van der Werff, and van der Does (2014) found that posttraumatic stress disorder symptoms were associated with attentional bias away from threat in patients with low attentional control.…”

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Working memory regulates trait anxiety-related threat processing biases.

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High trait anxious individuals tend to show biased processing of threat. Correlational evidence suggests that executive control could be used to regulate such threat-processing. On this basis, we hypothesised that trait anxiety-related cognitive biases regarding threat should be exaggerated when executive control is experimentally impaired by loading working memory. In Study 1, 68 undergraduates read ambiguous vignettes under high and low working memory load; later, their interpretations of these vignettes were assessed via a recognition test. Trait anxiety predicted biased interpretation of social threat vignettes under high working memory load, but not under low working memory load. In Study 2, 53 undergraduates completed a dot probe task with fear-conditioned Japanese characters serving as threat stimuli. Trait anxiety predicted attentional bias to the threat stimuli but, again, this only occurred under high working memory load. Interestingly however, actual eye movements toward the threat stimuli were only associated with state anxiety and this was not moderated by working memory load, suggesting that executive control regulates biased threat-processing downstream of initial input processes such as orienting. These results suggest that cognitive loads can exacerbate trait anxiety-related cognitive biases, and therefore represent a useful tool for assessing cognitive biases in future research. More importantly, since biased threat-processing has been implicated in the aetiology and maintenance of anxiety, poor executive control may be a risk factor for anxiety disorders.

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Attentional control as a moderator of the relationship between posttraumatic stress symptoms and attentional threat bias

Cited by 180 publications

References 58 publications

Is trait resilience characterized by specific patterns of attentional bias to emotional stimuli and attentional control?

Is trait resilience characterized by specific patterns of attentional bias to emotional stimuli and attentional control?

Working memory regulates trait anxiety-related threat processing biases.

Attentional Bias Temporal Dynamics Predict Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms: A Prospective-Longitudinal Study Among Soldiers

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