A cognitive-motivational analysis of anxiety
A cognitive-motivational analysis of anxiety
Evidence of preattentive and attentional biases in anxiety is evaluated from a cognitive-motivational perspective. According to this analysis, vulnerability to anxiety stems mainly from a lower threshold for appraising threat, rather than a bias in the direction of attention deployment. Thus, relatively innocuous stimuli are evaluated as having higher subjective threat value by high than low trait anxious individuals, and it is further assumed that everyone orients to stimuli that are judged to be significantly threatening. This account is contrasted with other recent cognitive models of anxiety, and implications for the etiology, maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders are discussed.
anxiety, motivation, selective attention, attentional bias, appraisal
809-848
Mogg, Karin
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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1998
Mogg, Karin
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Bradley, Brendan P.
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Mogg, Karin and Bradley, Brendan P.
(1998)
A cognitive-motivational analysis of anxiety.
Behaviour Research and Therapy, 36 (9), .
(doi:10.1016/S0005-7967(98)00063-1).
Abstract
Evidence of preattentive and attentional biases in anxiety is evaluated from a cognitive-motivational perspective. According to this analysis, vulnerability to anxiety stems mainly from a lower threshold for appraising threat, rather than a bias in the direction of attention deployment. Thus, relatively innocuous stimuli are evaluated as having higher subjective threat value by high than low trait anxious individuals, and it is further assumed that everyone orients to stimuli that are judged to be significantly threatening. This account is contrasted with other recent cognitive models of anxiety, and implications for the etiology, maintenance and treatment of anxiety disorders are discussed.
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Published date: 1998
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anxiety, motivation, selective attention, attentional bias, appraisal
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/18423
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