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Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification

The current study examined the effects of a reward associative learning procedure and the traditional threat-avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias. In reward training, participants were given high rewards for correct responses to neutral target and low rewards for correct responses...

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Autores principales: Xiao, Wen, Zheng, Xiaoqi, Luo, Yuejia, Peng, Jiaxin
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36507005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.982909
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author Xiao, Wen
Zheng, Xiaoqi
Luo, Yuejia
Peng, Jiaxin
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description The current study examined the effects of a reward associative learning procedure and the traditional threat-avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias. In reward training, participants were given high rewards for correct responses to neutral target and low rewards for correct responses to negative target. In reward control training, participants received no cues of rewards after their responses. High trait anxious individuals (N = 76) first completed a session of reward training or reward control training, followed by four sessions of ABM training or ABM control training. Generalized anxiety disorder symptom (GAD-7) and attentional bias in a dot-probe task were assessed during pre-and post-training. Results indicated that the effect of ABM training on reducing anxiety was only obtained in the reward training condition. Participants who received reward training showed significantly less attentional bias compared with those receiving reward control training. There was no significant training effect of ABM on atttentiona bias. Results suggested that reward training reduced general anxiety and attentional bias. Traditional ABM training reduced anxiety only when combined with reward training. Attentional bias in anxiety are modifiable through reward training.
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spelling pubmed-97285862022-12-08 Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification Xiao, Wen Zheng, Xiaoqi Luo, Yuejia Peng, Jiaxin Front Psychol Psychology The current study examined the effects of a reward associative learning procedure and the traditional threat-avoidance ABM paradigm on anxiety and attentional bias. In reward training, participants were given high rewards for correct responses to neutral target and low rewards for correct responses to negative target. In reward control training, participants received no cues of rewards after their responses. High trait anxious individuals (N = 76) first completed a session of reward training or reward control training, followed by four sessions of ABM training or ABM control training. Generalized anxiety disorder symptom (GAD-7) and attentional bias in a dot-probe task were assessed during pre-and post-training. Results indicated that the effect of ABM training on reducing anxiety was only obtained in the reward training condition. Participants who received reward training showed significantly less attentional bias compared with those receiving reward control training. There was no significant training effect of ABM on atttentiona bias. Results suggested that reward training reduced general anxiety and attentional bias. Traditional ABM training reduced anxiety only when combined with reward training. Attentional bias in anxiety are modifiable through reward training. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC9728586/ /pubmed/36507005 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.982909 Text en Copyright © 2022 Xiao, Zheng, Luo and Peng. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Peng, Jiaxin
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title Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification
title_full Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification
title_fullStr Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification
title_full_unstemmed Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification
title_short Reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification
title_sort reducing anxiety and attentional bias with reward association learning and attentional bias modification
topic Psychology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9728586/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36507005
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.982909
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