Custers J A E, Becker E S, Gielissen M F M, Van Laarhoven H W M, Rinck M, Prins J B
Department of Medical Psychology 840, Radboud University Medical Center, Nijmegen, The Netherlands,
Ann Behav Med. 2015 Feb;49(1):66-73. doi: 10.1007/s12160-014-9632-9.
Anxious people show an attentional bias towards threatening information.
It was investigated whether an attentional bias exists for cancer-related stimuli in breast cancer survivors and if different levels of fear of cancer recurrence would lead to different patterns of selective attention.
Breast cancer survivors with high (n = 35) and low (n = 32) fear of cancer recurrence were compared to 40 healthy female hospital employees. Specificity of attentional biases was investigated using a modified Emotional Stroop Task. Self-report measures were used to assess depression and anxiety, feelings of fatigue, and experienced traumas.
Compared to control participants, breast cancer survivors with both high and low levels of fear of cancer recurrence showed increased interference for cancer-related words, but not for other word types.
The findings suggest a specific attentional bias for cancer-related words in breast cancer survivors that is independent of level of fear of cancer recurrence.
焦虑的人对威胁性信息表现出注意偏向。
研究乳腺癌幸存者对癌症相关刺激是否存在注意偏向，以及不同水平的癌症复发恐惧是否会导致不同的选择性注意模式。
将高癌症复发恐惧（n = 35）和低癌症复发恐惧（n = 32）的乳腺癌幸存者与40名健康女性医院员工进行比较。使用改良的情绪Stroop任务研究注意偏向的特异性。采用自我报告测量方法评估抑郁、焦虑、疲劳感和经历的创伤。
与对照组参与者相比，高癌症复发恐惧和低癌症复发恐惧的乳腺癌幸存者对癌症相关词汇的干扰均增加，但对其他词汇类型则不然。
研究结果表明，乳腺癌幸存者对癌症相关词汇存在特定的注意偏向，且该偏向与癌症复发恐惧水平无关。
