Attentional bias for affective visual stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder and the role of depression
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Attentional bias for affective visual stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder and the role of depression. / Hauschildt, Marit; Wittekind, Charlotte; Moritz, Steffen; Kellner, Michael; Jelinek, Lena.
in: PSYCHIAT RES, Jahrgang 207, Nr. 1-2, 15.05.2013, S. 73-9.Publikationen: SCORING: Beitrag in Fachzeitschrift/Zeitung › SCORING: Zeitschriftenaufsatz › Forschung › Begutachtung
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T1 - Attentional bias for affective visual stimuli in posttraumatic stress disorder and the role of depression
AU - Hauschildt, Marit
AU - Wittekind, Charlotte
AU - Moritz, Steffen
AU - Kellner, Michael
AU - Jelinek, Lena
N1 - Copyright © 2012 Elsevier Ireland Ltd. All rights reserved.
PY - 2013/5/15
Y1 - 2013/5/15
N2 - An attentional bias for trauma-related verbal cues was frequently demonstrated in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using variants of the emotional Stroop task (EST). However, the mechanisms underlying the Stroop-effect are ill-defined and it is yet unclear how the findings apply to different paradigms and stimulus modalities. To address these open questions, for the first time a spatial-cuing task with pictorial cues of different emotional valence was administered to trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD, and non-trauma-exposed controls. Groups did not show different response profiles across affective conditions. However, a group effect was evident when comparing depressed with non-depressed individuals: Those with depression showed delayed attending towards trauma-related cues and faster attending away from negative cues. In correlational analyses, attentional avoidance was associated with both depression and PTSD symptom severity. These findings highlight the need for research on trauma populations and anxiety in general to pay closer attention to depression as an important confound in the study of emotional information processing.
AB - An attentional bias for trauma-related verbal cues was frequently demonstrated in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) using variants of the emotional Stroop task (EST). However, the mechanisms underlying the Stroop-effect are ill-defined and it is yet unclear how the findings apply to different paradigms and stimulus modalities. To address these open questions, for the first time a spatial-cuing task with pictorial cues of different emotional valence was administered to trauma-exposed individuals with and without PTSD, and non-trauma-exposed controls. Groups did not show different response profiles across affective conditions. However, a group effect was evident when comparing depressed with non-depressed individuals: Those with depression showed delayed attending towards trauma-related cues and faster attending away from negative cues. In correlational analyses, attentional avoidance was associated with both depression and PTSD symptom severity. These findings highlight the need for research on trauma populations and anxiety in general to pay closer attention to depression as an important confound in the study of emotional information processing.
KW - Adult
KW - Analysis of Variance
KW - Attention
KW - Bias (Epidemiology)
KW - Cues
KW - Depression
KW - Emotions
KW - Female
KW - Humans
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Photic Stimulation
KW - Psychiatric Status Rating Scales
KW - Reaction Time
KW - Statistics as Topic
KW - Stress Disorders, Post-Traumatic
KW - Stroop Test
KW - Young Adult
U2 - 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.11.024
DO - 10.1016/j.psychres.2012.11.024
M3 - SCORING: Journal article
C2 - 23337739
VL - 207
SP - 73
EP - 79
JO - PSYCHIAT RES
JF - PSYCHIAT RES
SN - 0165-1781
IS - 1-2
ER -
