Increased attention allocation to socially threatening faces in social anxiety disorder: A replication study.
Eye tracking, Attention allocation, Attention bias
Reliability
Replicability
Social anxiety disorder
Journal
Journal of affective disorders
ISSN: 1573-2517
Titre abrégé: J Affect Disord
Pays: Netherlands
ID NLM: 7906073
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
01 07 2021
01 07 2021
Historique:
received:
22
11
2020
revised:
16
02
2021
accepted:
23
04
2021
pubmed:
18
5
2021
medline:
6
7
2021
entrez:
17
5
2021
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
Threat-related attention bias has been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with attentional research increasingly using eye-tracking methodology to overcome the poor psychometric properties of response-time-based tasks and measures. Yet, extant eye-tracking research in social anxiety has mostly failed to report on psychometrics and attempts to replicate past results are rare. Therefore, we attempted to replicate a previously published eye-tracking study of gaze patterns in socially anxious and nonanxious participants as they viewed social threatening and neutral faces, while also exploring the psychometric properties of the attentional measures used. Gaze was monitored as participants freely viewed 60 different matrices comprised of eight socially-threatening and eight neutral faces, presented for 6000 ms each. Gaze patterns directed at threat and neutral areas of interest (AOIs) were compared by group. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were also evaluated. Relative to healthy controls, socially anxious patients dwelled significantly longer on threat faces, replicating prior findings with the same task. Internal consistency of total dwell time on threat and neutral AOIs was high, and two-week test-retest reliability was acceptable. Test-retest reliability was only examined for the control group, which had a small sample size. Increased dwell time on socially threatening stimuli is a reliable, stable, and generalizable measure of attentional bias in adults with social anxiety.
Sections du résumé
BACKGROUND
Threat-related attention bias has been implicated in the etiology and maintenance of social anxiety disorder (SAD), with attentional research increasingly using eye-tracking methodology to overcome the poor psychometric properties of response-time-based tasks and measures. Yet, extant eye-tracking research in social anxiety has mostly failed to report on psychometrics and attempts to replicate past results are rare. Therefore, we attempted to replicate a previously published eye-tracking study of gaze patterns in socially anxious and nonanxious participants as they viewed social threatening and neutral faces, while also exploring the psychometric properties of the attentional measures used.
METHODS
Gaze was monitored as participants freely viewed 60 different matrices comprised of eight socially-threatening and eight neutral faces, presented for 6000 ms each. Gaze patterns directed at threat and neutral areas of interest (AOIs) were compared by group. Internal consistency and test-retest reliability were also evaluated.
RESULTS
Relative to healthy controls, socially anxious patients dwelled significantly longer on threat faces, replicating prior findings with the same task. Internal consistency of total dwell time on threat and neutral AOIs was high, and two-week test-retest reliability was acceptable.
LIMITATIONS
Test-retest reliability was only examined for the control group, which had a small sample size.
CONCLUSION
Increased dwell time on socially threatening stimuli is a reliable, stable, and generalizable measure of attentional bias in adults with social anxiety.
Identifiants
pubmed: 34000570
pii: S0165-0327(21)00395-5
doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.04.063
pmc: PMC8217243
mid: NIHMS1699576
pii:
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Research Support, N.I.H., Extramural
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
169-177Subventions
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R33 MH116089
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R37 MH068376
Pays : United States
Organisme : NIMH NIH HHS
ID : R61 MH116089
Pays : United States
Informations de copyright
Copyright © 2021. Published by Elsevier B.V.
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