ArticlePloS one2010
The impact of worry on attention to threat.
Article in PloS one, 2010. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 10 papers.
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- Verbal worry facilitates attention to threat in high-worriers.Journal of behavior therapy and experimental psychiatry · 2014Trial
- The role of maladaptive personality traits on psychological stress the mediating effects of COVID-19-related worries and emotional dysregulation.Personality and individual differences · 2023Article
- Comparative analysis of anxiety/depression scores in COVID-19 patients with disease severity, sleep patterns, and certain laboratory test results.Archives of medical science : AMS · 2022Article
- Survey of Stress in COVID Patient Post Treatment: A Qualitative Research.Journal of pharmacy & bioallied sciences · 2021Article
- The relationship between worry and attentional bias to threat cues signalling controllable and uncontrollable dangers.PloS one · 2021Article
- How to Improve Compliance with Protective Health Measures during the COVID-19 Outbreak: Testing a Moderated Mediation Model and Machine Learning Algorithms.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- A Nationwide Survey of Psychological Distress among Italian People during the COVID-19 Pandemic: Immediate Psychological Responses and Associated Factors.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2020Article
- Population Behavior Patterns in Response to the Risk of Influenza A(H7N9) in Hong Kong, December 2013-February 2014.International journal of behavioral medicine · 2015Article
- Worrying and rumination are both associated with reduced cognitive control.Psychological research · 2014Article
- A cognitive model of pathological worry.Behaviour research and therapy · 2012Article
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Abstract
Prior research has often linked anxiety to attentional vigilance for threat using the dot probe task, which presents probes in spatial locations that were or were not preceded by a putative threat stimulus. The present study investigated the impact of worry on threat vigilance by administering this task during a worry condition and during a mental arithmetic control condition to 56 undergraduate students scoring in the low normal range on a measure of chronic worry. The worry induction was associated with faster responses than arithmetic to probes in the attended location following threat words, indicating the combined influence of worry and threat in facilitating attention. Within the worry condition, responses to probes in the attended location were faster for trials containing threat words than for trials with only neutral words, whereas the converse pattern was observed for responses to probes in the unattended location. This connection between worry states and attentional capture by threat may be central to understanding the impact of hypervigilance on information processing in anxiety and its disorders.
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