a School of Nursing , Second Military Medical University , Shanghai , China.
c School of Nursing , Anhui Medical University , Hefei , China.
Psychol Health Med. 2018 Oct;23(9):1125-1136. doi: 10.1080/13548506.2018.1465575. Epub 2018 May 15.
Extensive evidence has been obtained that supports an association between an attentional bias (AB) toward negative stimuli and vulnerability to stress-related psychopathology, little is known regarding the characteristics of individual AB in different posttraumatic growth (PTG) levels. The current study used a modified dot-probe task to investigate if individual differences in AB towards either positive or negative emotional stimuli, are related to self-reported PTG. A sample of 202 patients completed the experiment. Patients with low levels of PTG did not exhibit AB toward negative or positive stimuli, patients with medium levels of PTG had difficulty disengaging attention from negative stimuli, patients with high levels of PTG had difficulty disengaging attention from positive stimuli. And the AB towards positive stimuli was only predictive for PTG. An implication of this finding is that there are different characteristics of implicit cognitive processing in patients with different levels of PTG, suggesting the necessity of psychological intervention on the accidentally injured patients.
大量证据表明，注意力偏向负面刺激与易患与压力相关的精神病理学之间存在关联，但是对于不同创伤后成长（PTG）水平个体注意力偏向的特征知之甚少。本研究使用改良的点探测任务来研究对正性或负性情绪刺激的注意力偏向的个体差异是否与自我报告的 PTG 有关。202 名患者完成了实验。PTG 水平较低的患者对负性或正性刺激没有表现出注意力偏向，PTG 水平中等的患者难以将注意力从负性刺激上转移开，PTG 水平高的患者难以将注意力从正性刺激上转移开。并且，对正性刺激的注意力偏向仅可预测 PTG。这一发现的意义在于，在不同 PTG 水平的患者中，内隐认知加工存在不同的特征，这表明对意外受伤患者进行心理干预的必要性。
