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AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY
ON SELECTIVE ATTENTION:
A TEST OF THE VIGILANCE-AVOIDANCE HYPOTHESIS
by
Lewina Onyi Lee
____________________________________________________________________
A Thesis Presented to the
FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL
UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
In Partial Fulfillment of the
Requirements for the Degree
MASTER OF ARTS
(PSYCHOLOGY)
December 2007
Copyright 2007 Lewina Onyi Lee
Object Description
| Title | Age differences in the effects of anxiety on selective attention: a test of the vigilance-avoidance hypothesis |
| Author | Lee, Lewina Onyi |
| Author email | lol@usc.edu |
| Degree | Master of Arts |
| Document type | Thesis |
| Degree program | Psychology |
| School | College of Letters, Arts and Sciences |
| Date defended/completed | 2006-09-26 |
| Date submitted | 2007 |
| Restricted until | Unrestricted |
| Date published | 2007-10-15 |
| Advisor (committee chair) | Knight, Bob G. |
| Advisor (committee member) |
Gatz, Margaret Dawson, Michael E. |
| Abstract | Attentional bias to threat has been established as feature of clinical anxiety in adults and children, yet little research has examined anxiety-related cognitive processes in older adults. The Dot Probe Task (DBT) is a reaction time task which allows researchers to infer subjects' time course of attention from their response to subliminally- and supraliminally-presented stimuli. In this study, 44 older adults and 103 younger adults completed self-report measures and underwent the DBT. The time course of attention in older adults was found to be moderated by anxiety level and the type of stimuli being viewed, such that anxious older adults demonstrated a vigilant-avoidant attentional style toward negative faces, but an avoidant-vigilant response to negative words. Among younger adults, there was limited evidence for the vigilance-avoidance hypothesis. These findings are discussed in light of a late-life emotion regulation framework. |
| Keyword | anxiety; attention; aging; dot probe task |
| Language | English |
| Part of collection | University of Southern California dissertations and theses |
| Publisher (of the original version) | University of Southern California |
| Place of publication (of the original version) | Los Angeles, California |
| Publisher (of the digital version) | University of Southern California. Libraries |
| Type | texts |
| Legacy record ID | usctheses-m869 |
| Rights | Lee, Lewina Onyi |
| Repository name | Libraries, University of Southern California |
| Repository address | Los Angeles, California |
| Repository email | http://www.usc.edu/isd/libraries/services/ask_a_librarian/email/ |
| Filename | etd-Lee-20071015 |
| Archival file | uscthesesreloadpub_Volume40/etd-Lee-20071015.pdf |
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| Full text | AGE DIFFERENCES IN THE EFFECTS OF ANXIETY ON SELECTIVE ATTENTION: A TEST OF THE VIGILANCE-AVOIDANCE HYPOTHESIS by Lewina Onyi Lee ____________________________________________________________________ A Thesis Presented to the FACULTY OF THE GRADUATE SCHOOL UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree MASTER OF ARTS (PSYCHOLOGY) December 2007 Copyright 2007 Lewina Onyi Lee |
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