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David Skvarc¹, Shannon Hyder¹, Laetitia Leary¹

¹School of Psychology, Deakin University, Geelong, VIC 3216, Australia.

Behavioral Sciences (Basel, Switzerland)

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Attention training (AT) may improve psychological distress, but not by altering attentional biases. Interestingly, control groups showed greater mood improvements than those undergoing attention training.

Keywords:

attention bias modification mood dysfunction psychological distress remote interventions

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Psychology
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Clinical Psychology

Background:

Psychological distress is often maintained by attentional processes.
Attention training (AT) is a potential intervention for distress.
Understanding the link between attention and distress is crucial for developing effective treatments.

Purpose of the Study:

To examine the impact of attention training (AT) on psychological distress symptoms.
To investigate if AT can induce immediate anxiolytic effects.
To explore the relationship between attentional biases, mood, and psychological distress.

Main Methods:

Two experiments were conducted: one with longitudinal measurements (N=336) and another examining immediate effects with different emotional stimuli (N=214).
Attentional biases were measured via target search latency, correlated with mood and distress scores.
Participants were assigned to experimental (AT) or control conditions.

Main Results:

Correlations between task latency, stress, and depression changes emerged at day thirty in experiment one.
No immediate between-within-group differences in outcome were found in experiment two.
While AT elicited positive biases, the control group reported greater mood and distress improvements.
Improvements in the experimental group primarily related to attentional biases, not overall distress reduction.

Conclusions:

Attention training tasks show potential for improving distress.
The mechanism of improvement from AT may not be through changes in attentional biases.
Control conditions demonstrated significant mood and distress improvements, suggesting other factors may be at play.