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Compulsive checking and selective processing of threatening information.

C Novara1, E Sanavio

  • 1Department of General Psychology, University of Padova, Italy. cnovara@psico.unipd.it

Psychological Reports
|October 13, 2001
PubMed
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Individuals with high compulsive checking behaviors exhibit biases in processing threatening stimuli. This suggests an early-stage cognitive difference in how anxious individuals perceive danger.

Area of Science:

  • Cognitive Psychology
  • Clinical Psychology
  • Neuroscience

Background:

  • Anxious and obsessive-compulsive individuals process threatening stimuli differently than neutral stimuli.
  • Compulsive checking is a common symptom in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).

Purpose of the Study:

  • To investigate the processing of threatening versus neutral words in students with high and low scores on the Checking subscale of the Padua Inventory.
  • To determine if compulsive checking is associated with altered threat processing.

Main Methods:

  • Employed a computerized emotional Stroop task to measure interference.
  • Utilized a recognition test under incidental learning conditions to assess memory.
  • Compared two groups of Italian students based on their scores on the Padua Inventory's Checking subscale.

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Main Results:

  • Confirmed an interference effect on the emotional Stroop task for students with high compulsive checking scores.
  • Demonstrated that individuals with high Checking scores showed a bias in processing threatening words.

Conclusions:

  • Results indicate a significant association between compulsive checking behaviors and a bias in the early, automatic stages of processing threatening stimuli.
  • This cognitive bias may be a contributing factor to the maintenance of compulsive checking in individuals with obsessive-compulsive tendencies.