Psychological Development and Education ›› 2012, Vol. 28 ›› Issue (3): 255-262.

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The temporal course and habituation tendency of the attention bias to the threaten stimulus in the adolescents with post-traumatic stress disorder(PTSD)

WANG Hai-tao1,2, HUANG Shan-shan1, HUANG Yue-sheng1,3, SUN Xiao-you1, ZHENG Xi-fu1   

  1. 1. Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631;
    2. The Students' affairs Division of Nanfang College of Sun Yat-sen University, Guangzhou 510970;
    3. The Department of Education Science of Hunan First Normal college, Changsha 410205
  • Online:2012-05-15 Published:2012-05-15

Abstract: Since Wenchuan earthquake,researchers paid much attention to individuals with posttraumatic stress disorder(PTSD) in China.And attentional bias has been widely demonstrated in PTSD individuals.However,few studies discussed the change of the bias in PTSD adolescents.In two experiments of present study,we intended to examine the time-course and the habituation in attentional bias to the threatening pictures in 40 children who had experienced the Wenchuan earthquake and counterpart without PTSD as control group by the exogenous cueing paradigm.Threat value,presentation duration and frequency of the cues were systematically varied.Results suggest that:(1) when the presentation duration was 100 ms,the trauma control group showed facilitated attentional engagement to the earthquake related pictures.When the presentation duration was 500 ms,all participants showed avoidance of attention to the earthquake related and negative pictures.When the presentation duration was 1250 ms,PTSD group still showed avoidance of attention to negative pictures,but avoidance to earthquake related pictures disappeared;avoidance of attention in trauma control group disappeared.(2) when the cue presentation frequency was six times(presentation duration was 500 ms),the attentional bias to negative and earthquake related pictures disappeared in PTSD group,while that still existed in control group.The present results support that the cycle of "alert-avoid-difficulties in disengaging " existing in the attentional bias of PTSD adolescents to the threatening information,while their attentional bias will be eliminated with the increase of the presentation frequency.Besides,the control group's attentional bias to threatening stimulus is easier to eliminate with longer present time.

Key words: Adolescent, PTSD, Attention bias, Cue-target task, Temporal course, Habituation tendency

CLC Number: 

  • B844.2
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