کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
2728969 1566779 2011 8 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
The Psychometric Properties of the Dot-Probe Paradigm When Used in Pain-Related Attentional Bias Research
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم زیستی و بیوفناوری علم عصب شناسی عصب شناسی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
The Psychometric Properties of the Dot-Probe Paradigm When Used in Pain-Related Attentional Bias Research
چکیده انگلیسی

In recent years, there has been increasing acknowledgment of the need for psychometric data regarding the dot-probe paradigm. The aim of the present study was to provide some data on the psychometric properties of the dot-probe paradigm in the context of pain-related research. Using the data of a large pain-free sample and a large chronic pain sample, the present study examined the psychometric properties of a picture- and word-based dot-probe task. It also examined the data of idiosyncratically selected stimuli designed to be relevant to each participant and compared this with the data of neutral stimuli and nonsalient pain-related stimuli. Poor levels of internal consistency (α range: −.44 to .28; split-half r range: −.35 to .11) and test-retest reliability (r range: −.14 to .13) were found among the pain-free sample, irrespective of the task used or the stimuli used. There was limited evidence of comparability between the 2 tasks among the chronic pain sample (r range: −.08 to .26) and similarly poor levels of internal-consistency (α range: −.56 to .17; split-half r range: −.20 to .25). The findings of the present study therefore suggest that psychometric issues may be important to pain-related attentional bias research. More research is, however, undoubtedly needed.PerspectiveThe aim of the present study was to provide data regarding the psychometric properties of the dot-probe paradigm within the specific context of pain-related attentional bias research. The findings of this study suggest that psychometric issues may be an important consideration in pain-related attentional biases research.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: The Journal of Pain - Volume 12, Issue 12, December 2011, Pages 1247–1254
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