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Early vigilance and late avoidance of threat processing: Repressive coping versus low/high anxiety.
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Cognition & Emotion . Nov2000, Vol. 14 Issue 6, p763-787. 25p. - Publication Year :
- 2000
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Abstract
- The time course of a bias in predicting danger as a function of a repressive coping style was examined. The participants belonged to repressor, low - anxious, or high - anxious groups. They read context sentences predictive of threat or nonthreat event outcomes, followed by target words for rapid naming representing the outcomes. The interval between context and target word was 50 ms (Experiment 1), 550 ms (Experiment 2), or 1050 ms (Experiments 3 and 4). There was bias for naming words confirming threatening outcomes: (a) for repressors in the 550-ms delay condition; and (b) for high - anxiety participants in the 1050-ms delay condition. Repressive coping facilitated early processing of threat, but inhibited late processing, whereas high anxiety was characterised by sustained vigilance for threat. There were clear differences in threat processing by repressors and the low - anxious participants. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *THREAT (Psychology)
*PSYCHOLOGICAL adaptation
*STIMULUS generalization
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 02699931
- Volume :
- 14
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Cognition & Emotion
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 4429171
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1080/02699930050156627