the impact of coping style on gaze duration应对风格在注视持续时间的影响.pdfVIP

The Impact of Coping Style on Gaze Duration 1 2 3 1 4 Tim Klucken *, Anne-Marie Brouwer , Astros Chatziastros , Sabine Kagerer , Petra Netter , Juergen Hennig4 1 Bender Institute of Neuroimaging, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany, 2 TNO Human Factors, Soesterberg, The Netherlands, 3 Max-Planck-Institute for Biological Cybernetics, Tuebingen, Germany, 4 Department of Psychology, University of Giessen, Giessen, Germany Abstract The understanding of individual differences in response to threat (e.g., attentional bias) is important to better understand the development of anxiety disorders. Previous studies revealed only a small attentional bias in high-anxious (HA) subjects. One explanation for this finding may be the assumption that all HA-subjects show a constant attentional bias. Current models distinguish HA-subjects depending on their level of tolerance for uncertainty and for arousal. These models assume that only HA-subjects with intolerance for uncertainty but tolerance for arousal (‘‘sensitizers’’) show an attentional bias, compared to HA-subjects with intolerance for uncertainty and intolerance for arousal (‘‘fluctuating subjects’’). Further, it is assumed that repressors (defined as intolerance for arousal but tolerance for uncertainty) would react with avoidance behavior when confronted with threatening stimuli. The present study investigated the influence of coping styles on attentional bias. After an extensive recruiting phase, 36 subjects were classified into three groups (sensitizers, fluctuating, and repressors). All subjects were exposed to presentations of happy and threatening faces, while recording gaze durations with an eye-tracker. The results showed