Impact of childhood trauma, alexithymia, dissociation, and emotion suppression on emotional Stroop task.

  • Katja Wingenfeld
  • Kirsten Terfehr
  • Zorica Petrovic
  • Christine Philippsen
  • Björn Meyer
  • Matthias Rose
  • Hans J Grabe
  • Sven Barnow
  • Bernd Löwe
  • Carsten Spitzer

Abstract

Attentional bias to emotion- and illness-related information plays a prominent role in many mental disorders, particularly major depressive disorder and anxiety disorders. Using the emotional Stroop task we investigated which variables beyond aspects of patients' psychopathology might influence reaction times and interference in the Stroop test.

Bibliographical data

Original languageGerman
Article number1
ISSN0022-3999
Publication statusPublished - 2011
pubmed 21193101