caa a22 4500 467897719 CHVBK 20180406152808.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170328e20061001xx s 000 0 eng 10.1007/s10608-006-9042-9 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1007/s10608-006-9042-9 Attention to Threat in Anxiety-prone Individuals: Mechanisms Underlying Attentional Bias [Elektronische Daten] [Ernst H. Koster, Geert Crombez, Bruno Verschuere, Jan De Houwer] Cognitive views on anxiety have proposed that attentional biases towards threatening information in high trait anxious individuals play an important role in the maintenance of anxiety and may even cause the development of clinical anxiety disorders. However, the precise nature of these attentional biases is under debate. In a pictorial version of the dot probe task, two accounts of attention to threat were contrasted and the components of attention involved in orienting to threat were assessed. Overall, the results support the view that all individuals orient to highly threatening pictures, with high trait anxious individuals orienting more strongly to moderately threatening pictures than the low trait anxious individuals. Attentional bias to threat in high trait anxious individuals was caused by attentional disengagement from threat. These results are discussed in relation to cognitive models of attention to threat. Springer Science+Business Media, Inc., 2006 Attention nationallicence Attentional bias nationallicence Trait anxiety nationallicence Threat nationallicence Dot probe nationallicence Koster Ernst H. Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut Crombez Geert Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut Verschuere Bruno Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut De Houwer Jan Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut Cognitive Therapy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 30/5(2006-10-01), 635-643 0147-5916 30:5<635 2006 30 10608 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9042-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-006-9042-9 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Koster Ernst H. Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Crombez Geert Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Verschuere Bruno Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- De Houwer Jan Department of Psychology, Ghent University, Henri Dunantlaan 2, B-9000, Ghent, Belgium aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Cognitive Therapy and Research Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers; http://www.springer-ny.com 30/5(2006-10-01), 635-643 0147-5916 30:5<635 2006 30 10608 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer