Threat-Related Attentional Bias in Anxious and Nonanxious Individuals: A Meta-Analytic Study

Autor/inn/en	Bar-Haim, Yair; Lamy, Dominique; Pergamin, Lee; Bakermans-Kranenburg, Marian J.; van IJzendoorn, Marinus H.
Titel	Threat-Related Attentional Bias in Anxious and Nonanxious Individuals: A Meta-Analytic Study
Quelle	In: Psychological Bulletin, 133 (2007) 1, S.1-24 (24 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-2909
Schlagwörter	Effect Size; Meta Analysis; Anxiety; Bias; Experiments; Research Methodology; Stimuli; Psychological Patterns; Adults; Children; Age Differences + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Meta-analysis; Metaanalyse; Angst; Erprobung; Research method; Forschungsmethode; Anreizsystem; Child; Kind; Kinder; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied
Abstract	This meta-analysis of 172 studies (N = 2,263 anxious, N = 1,768 nonanxious) examined the boundary conditions of threat-related attentional biases in anxiety. Overall, the results show that the bias is reliably demonstrated with different experimental paradigms and under a variety of experimental conditions, but that it is only an effect size of d = 0.45. Although processes requiring conscious perception of threat contribute to the bias, a significant bias is also observed with stimuli outside awareness. The bias is of comparable magnitude across different types of anxious populations (individuals with different clinical disorders, high-anxious nonclinical individuals, anxious children and adults) and is not observed in nonanxious individuals. Empirical and clinical implications as well as future directions for research are discussed. (Author).
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Update	2017/4/10