弱注意力控制与认知扭曲之间的关系，可以用消极情绪来解释。
A relationship between weak attentional control and cognitive distortions, explained by negative affect.
机构信息
Sabancı University, Istanbul, Turkey.
School of Psychology, University of Kent, Canterbury, United Kingdom.
出版信息
PLoS One. 2019 Apr 18;14(4):e0215399. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0215399. eCollection 2019.
People high in negative affect (anxiety or depression) show cognitive distortions, specific thinking errors which contribute to the maintenance of their condition. It is thought that weak attentional control is a risk factor for negative affect and emotional disorders, because weak attentional control exaggerates the expression of attentional bias, another cognitive feature of emotional disorders. We wondered whether weak attentional control might similarly exaggerate the expression of cognitive distortions. In two samples of students from Turkey and the UK, we found that weak attentional control was indeed related to cognitive distortions, but this relationship was explained by both variables' relationships with negative affect. This suggests that weak attentional control, while related to negative affect, does not necessarily exaggerate all of its cognitive features. There seems to be a limit on the affective consequences of poor attentional control, which may limit its clinical usefulness as a risk factor for emotional disorders.
情绪消极（焦虑或抑郁）高的人表现出认知扭曲，即特定的思维错误，这些错误导致了他们的状况的持续。人们认为，注意力控制薄弱是消极情绪和情绪障碍的一个风险因素，因为注意力控制薄弱会夸大注意力偏向的表达，而注意力偏向是情绪障碍的另一个认知特征。我们想知道，注意力控制薄弱是否同样会夸大认知扭曲的表现。在来自土耳其和英国的两个学生样本中，我们发现，注意力控制薄弱确实与认知扭曲有关，但这种关系可以用这两个变量与消极情绪的关系来解释。这表明，注意力控制薄弱虽然与消极情绪有关，但并不一定夸大其所有的认知特征。注意力控制不佳的情感后果似乎有限，这可能限制了它作为情绪障碍风险因素的临床有用性。
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