Joint Doctoral Program, San Diego State University/University of California, San Diego, CA, USA.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2010 Feb;119(1):136-42. doi: 10.1037/a0017549.
In the current study, we evaluated the effectiveness of attention training in individuals with subclinical obsessive-compulsive symptoms. We hypothesized that after completing attention training, participants would be more likely to complete steps in a hierarchy approaching their feared contaminant compared with participants in the control condition. Participants completed a probe detection task by identifying letters replacing one member of a pair of words (neutral or contamination related). We trained attention by building a contingency between the location of the contamination-related word in the active condition and not in the control condition. Participants in the active group showed a significant reduction in attention bias for threat and completed significantly more steps when approaching their feared objects compared with participants in the control group. Our results suggest that attention disengagement training may facilitate approaching feared objects in individuals with obsessive-compulsive symptoms.
在本研究中，我们评估了注意训练对亚临床强迫症症状个体的有效性。我们假设，与对照组相比，完成注意训练后，参与者在接近其恐惧污染物的层级步骤上更有可能完成。参与者通过识别替换一对单词（中性或污染相关）中一个成员的字母来完成探测检测任务。我们通过在主动条件下污染相关单词的位置与控制条件下的位置之间建立关联来训练注意力。与对照组相比，主动组的参与者对威胁的注意力偏差显著降低，在接近他们恐惧的物体时完成的步骤明显更多。我们的研究结果表明，注意脱陷训练可能有助于促进强迫症症状个体接近他们恐惧的物体。
