کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
903803 916596 2012 29 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Automaticity in anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Automaticity in anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder
چکیده انگلیسی

In this paper we examine the nature of automatic cognitive processing in anxiety disorders and Major Depressive Disorder (MDD). Rather than viewing automaticity as a unitary construct, we follow a social cognition perspective (Bargh, 1994) that argues for four theoretically independent features of automaticity: unconscious (processing of emotional stimuli occurs outside awareness), efficient (processing emotional meaning uses minimal attentional resources), unintentional (no goal is needed to engage in processing emotional meaning), and uncontrollable (limited ability to avoid, alter or terminate processing emotional stimuli). Our review of the literature suggests that most anxiety disorders are characterized by uncontrollable, and likely also unconscious and unintentional, biased processing of threat-relevant information. In contrast, MDD is most clearly typified by uncontrollable, but not unconscious or unintentional, processing of negative information. For the anxiety disorders and for MDD, there is no sufficient evidence to draw firm conclusions about efficiency of processing, though early indications are that neither anxiety disorders nor MDD are characterized by this feature. Clinical and theoretical implications of these findings are discussed and directions for future research are offered. In particular, it is clear that paradigms that more directly delineate the different features of automaticity are required to gain a more comprehensive and systematic understanding of the importance of automatic processing in emotion dysregulation.


► Evaluates features of automatic processing in anxiety disorders and depression
► Anxiety disorders involve uncontrollable, unconscious, and unintentional processing
► Depression involves uncontrollable, but not unconscious or unintentional processing
► Neither anxiety disorders nor depression characterized by efficient processing

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Clinical Psychology Review - Volume 32, Issue 6, August 2012, Pages 575–603
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