RT Journal Article
T1 Attentional disengagement predicts stress recovery in depression: An eye-tracking study.
A1 Marker, Craig
A1 LeMoult, Joelle
A1 Joormann, Jutta
A1 Sánchez López, Álvaro
A1 Vázquez Valverde, Carmelo José
AB Previous research has made significant progress elucidating the nature of cognitive biases in emotional disorders. However, less work has focused on the relation among cognitive biases and emotional responding in clinical samples. This study uses eye-tracking to examine difficulties disengaging attention from emotional material in depressed participants and to test its relation with mood reactivity and recovery during and after a stress induction. Participants diagnosed with Major Depressive Disorder (MDD) and never-disordered control participants (CTL) completed a novel eye-tracking paradigm in which participants had to disengage their attention from emotional material to attend to a neutralstimulus. Time to disengage attention was computed using a direct recording of eye movements.Participants then completed a stress induction and mood reactivity and recovery were assessed. MDD compared with CTL participants took significantly longer to disengage from depression-related stimuli (i.e., sad faces). Individual differences in disengagement predicted lower recovery from sad mood in response to the stress induction in the MDD group. These results suggest that difficulties in attentional disengagement may contribute to the sustained negative affect that characterizes depressive disorders.
PB American Psychological Association
SN 1939-1846
SN 0021-843X
YR 2013
FD 2013-05
LK https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99587
UL https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14352/99587
LA eng
NO Sanchez, A., Vazquez, C., Marker, C., LeMoult, J., & Joormann, J. (2013). Attentional disengagement predicts stress recovery in depression: an eye-tracking study. Journal of abnormal psychology, 122(2), 303–313. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0031529
NO Spanish Ministry of Education
DS Docta Complutense
RD 22 abr 2025