Attentional bias in high math-anxious individuals: evidence from an emotional Stroop task

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dc.contributor.authorSuárez Pellicioni, Macarena
dc.contributor.authorNúñez Peña, María Isabel
dc.contributor.authorColomé, Àngels
dc.date.accessioned2017-09-01T08:15:46Z
dc.date.available2017-09-01T08:15:46Z
dc.date.issued2015-09-29
dc.date.updated2017-09-01T08:15:46Z
dc.description.abstractAttentional bias towards threatening or emotional information is considered a cognitive marker of anxiety, and it has been described in various clinical and subclinical populations. This study used an emotional Stroop task to investigate whether math anxiety is characterized by an attentional bias towards math-related words. Two previous studies failed to observe such an effect in math-anxious individuals, although the authors acknowledged certain methodological limitations that the present study seeks to avoid. Twenty high math-anxious (HMA) and 20 low math-anxious (LMA) individuals were presented with an emotional Stroop task including math-related and neutral words. Participants in the two groups did not differ in trait anxiety or depression. We found that the HMA group showed slower response times to math-related words than to neutral words, which constitutes the first demonstration of an attentional bias towards math-related words in HMA individuals.
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dc.identifier.idgrec654593
dc.identifier.issn1664-1078
dc.identifier.pmid26539137
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/2445/114868
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherFrontiers Media
dc.relation.isformatofReproducció del document publicat a: https://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01577
dc.relation.ispartofFrontiers in Psychology, 2015, vol. 6, p. 1577
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2015.01577
dc.rightscc-by (c) Suárez Pellicioni, Macarena et al., 2015
dc.rights.accessRightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/es
dc.sourceArticles publicats en revistes (Psicologia Social i Psicologia Quantitativa)
dc.subject.classificationAnsietat
dc.subject.classificationCognició
dc.subject.otherAnxiety
dc.subject.otherCognition
dc.titleAttentional bias in high math-anxious individuals: evidence from an emotional Stroop task
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/article
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/publishedVersion

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