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Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults

Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults

Published on: October 19, 2014

Assessing attentional biases with stuttering.

Robyn Lowe¹, Ross Menzies¹, Ann Packman¹

¹The University of Sydney, Australian Stuttering Research Centre, Lidcombe, NSW, Australia.

International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders

|July 16, 2015

Summary

Adults who stutter did not show an attentional bias to avoid social information unless they had high trait anxiety. This suggests anxiety, not stuttering itself, influences attention to social threats.

Keywords:

attentional bias social anxiety disorder stuttering

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Area of Science:

Speech-Language Pathology
Clinical Psychology
Cognitive Science

Background:

Adults who stutter often experience social anxiety disorder, which can hinder speech treatment progress.
Cognitive theories suggest negative cognitions and information processing biases maintain social anxiety.
Previous research indicates social anxiety is linked to an attentional bias away from social information.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate information processing in adults who stutter using the probe detection task.
To determine if adults who stutter exhibit an attentional bias to avoid social information.
To explore the implications of information processing biases for stuttering assessment and treatment.

Main Methods:

Twenty-three adults who stutter and 23 controls completed a probe detection task.
Participants viewed pairs of photographs: emotional faces (positive, negative, neutral) and objects.
A mild social threat induction was administered before the task.

Main Results:

The stuttering group reported higher trait anxiety than controls but similar social anxiety levels.
Non-socially anxious adults who stutter did not show an attentional bias away from faces.
Higher trait anxiety correlated positively with attention toward negative facial stimuli.

Conclusions:

Attentional biases away from social information may not characterize all adults who stutter, particularly those without social anxiety.
Vigilance toward threat information in high trait anxiety aligns with previous findings in stuttering and social anxiety disorder.
Future research should focus on socially anxious individuals who stutter and incorporate speaking-based paradigms.