Health anxiety, anxiety sensitivity and attentional biases for pictorial and linguistic health-threat cues.
Lees, Andrea, Mogg, Karin and Bradley, Bradley (2005) Health anxiety, anxiety sensitivity and attentional biases for pictorial and linguistic health-threat cues. Cognition and Emotion, 19, (3), 453-462. (doi:10.1080/02699930441000184).
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The study investigated attentional biases for pictorial and linguistic health-threat stimuli in high and low health anxious individuals, who were selected from the upper and lower quartile ranges of a normal sample using a screening measure of health anxiety. Attentional bias was assessed using a visual probe task which presented health-threat and neutral pictures and words at two exposure durations, 500 ms and 1250 ms. The prediction that the high health anxious group would show a greater attentional bias for health-threat cues than the low health anxious group was not supported despite the groups being well-differentiated on a general measure of health anxiety, the Illness Attitudes Scale (IAS). Instead, the results indicated that individuals with high levels of anxiety sensitivity showed a significantly greater initial attentional bias for threat pictures compared with those with low anxiety sensitivity, as assessed by the Anxiety Sensitivity Index (ASI).
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0269-9931 (print) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | University Structure - Pre August 2011 > School of Psychology > Division of Clinical Neuroscience |
| Item ID: | 40176 |
| Date Deposited: | 03 Jul 2006 |
| Last Modified: | 01 Jun 2011 09:12 |
| Contributors: | Lees, Andrea (Author) Mogg, Karin (Author) Bradley, Bradley (Author) |
| Date: | 2005 |
| Status: | Published |
| Contact Email Address: | K.Mogg@soton.ac.uk |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/40176 |
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