Time course of attentional bias for health-related information in individuals with health anxiety
- Authors
- Kim, Sujin; Lee, Jang-Han
- Issue Date
- Aug-2016
- Publisher
- SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
- Keywords
- anxiety; coping; health behavior; perception
- Citation
- JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY, v.21, no.8, pp 1527 - 1535
- Pages
- 9
- Journal Title
- JOURNAL OF HEALTH PSYCHOLOGY
- Volume
- 21
- Number
- 8
- Start Page
- 1527
- End Page
- 1535
- URI
- https://scholarworks.bwise.kr/cau/handle/2019.sw.cau/6676
- DOI
- 10.1177/1359105314557976
- ISSN
- 1359-1053
1461-7277
- Abstract
- This study examined whether particular coping strategies influence attentional bias in individuals with health anxiety. A total of 84 participants were divided into four groups on the basis of their health-anxiety level (high/low) and coping strategy (monitor/blunter). The participants were shown screens displaying health-related pictures paired with non-health-related pictures. As a result, the high health-anxiety group was more attentive to health stimuli than the low health-anxiety group, regardless of the coping strategy. When maintaining attention, the high health-anxiety blunter shifted attention away from health stimuli, whereas the high health-anxiety monitor shifted attention toward the stimuli. These results indicated differences in how individuals manage attention processing according to their coping strategy.
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