COGNITIVE PROCESSING OF EMOTIONAL INFORMATION IN POSTTRAUMATIC-STRESS-DISORDER

被引:101
作者
KASPI, SP
MCNALLY, RJ
AMIR, N
机构
[1] HARVARD UNIV,DEPT PSYCHOL,33 KIRKLAND ST,CAMBRIDGE,MA 02138
[2] MED COLL PENN,PHILADELPHIA,PA 19129
关键词
POSTTRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER; PTSD; VIETNAM VETERANS; STROOP PARADIGM;
D O I
10.1007/BF02230410
中图分类号
B849 [应用心理学];
学科分类号
040203 ;
摘要
Vietnam combat veterans either with or without posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) participated in a computerized Stroop color-naming experiment in which they named the colors of neutral, positive, negative, and combat words. Idiographic stimulus selection established the personal emotional significance of the stimuli. Words appeared either randomly or blocked by type. Results indicated that PTSD patients exhibited more interference for combat words than for other words, whereas control subjects exhibited similar, but less pronounced, patterns of interference. Positive words produced no more interference than neutral words, and much less than combat words. This paradigm may provide a nonintrospective index of intrusive cognition in traumatized people.
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页码:433 / 444
页数:12
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