کد مقاله کد نشریه سال انتشار مقاله انگلیسی نسخه تمام متن
909839 917315 2008 9 صفحه PDF دانلود رایگان
عنوان انگلیسی مقاله ISI
Effects of internal and external distraction and focus during exposure to blood-injury-injection stimuli
موضوعات مرتبط
علوم پزشکی و سلامت پزشکی و دندانپزشکی روانپزشکی و بهداشت روانی
پیش نمایش صفحه اول مقاله
Effects of internal and external distraction and focus during exposure to blood-injury-injection stimuli
چکیده انگلیسی

The present study examined the effects of attentional focus on fear reduction during exposure. Participants were randomly assigned to experimental conditions: exposure plus internal focus, exposure plus external focus, exposure plus internal distraction, exposure plus external distraction or exposure alone. Fifty blood-injury-injection fearful participants received 3 weekly exposure sessions. Participants in the distraction group reported the greatest fear reduction, with most notable reductions occurring for the external distraction condition. The distraction group also achieved a greater number of steps on a behavioral avoidance task at post-treatment, with the external distraction condition displaying greater approach behavior at follow-up. At follow-up the distraction group also displayed a greater increase in perceived control than the focusing group. Thus, distraction reduces fear within and between sessions and increases approach behavior in the longer-term, with exposure plus external distraction further facilitating this effect.

ناشر
Database: Elsevier - ScienceDirect (ساینس دایرکت)
Journal: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - Volume 22, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 283–291
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