Heim-Dreger Uwe, Kohlmann Carl-Walter, Eschenbeck Heike, Burkhardt Ute
Department of Psychology, University of Education Schwäbisch Gmünd, Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany.
Emotion. 2006 May;6(2):320-5. doi: 10.1037/1528-3542.6.2.320.
The authors examined the processing of threat-related information in childhood anxiety with the emotional Stroop task and the dot probe task. In study 1, a nonclinical sample of 112 pupils (mean age = 9 years) performed pictorial versions of both tasks. For each task, an index indicating a bias for threat processing was computed. Positive correlations were found between these indices and anxiety. When compared with the original emotional Stroop index, the absolute value of the emotional Stroop index was a better predictor of anxiety. It was possible to replicate this result in study 2 with 80 pupils (mean age = 8.6 years). Results are discussed with regard to vigilance and avoidance as basic mechanisms underlying performance on the tasks.
作者使用情绪Stroop任务和点探测任务研究了儿童焦虑中与威胁相关信息的加工过程。在研究1中，112名学生（平均年龄 = 9岁）的非临床样本完成了这两项任务的图片版本。对于每项任务，计算了一个表明威胁加工偏向的指标。这些指标与焦虑之间存在正相关。与原始情绪Stroop指标相比，情绪Stroop指标的绝对值是焦虑的更好预测指标。在研究2中，80名学生（平均年龄 = 8.6岁）也得到了同样的结果。研究结果从警觉和回避这两个作为任务表现基础的基本机制方面进行了讨论。
