No evidence of attentional bias in obsessive compulsive checking on the dot probe paradigm |
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| Authors: | Emily L. Harkness Lynne M. Harris Mairwen K. Jones Lisa Vaccaro |
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| Affiliation: | 1. School of Psychology, The University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe 1825, Australia;2. Faculty of Health Sciences, The University of Sydney, PO Box 170, Lidcombe 1825, Australia;1. Department of Physiological Psychology, University of Bamberg, Bamberg, Germany;2. Centre for Pain Research & Department of Psychology, University of Bath, Bath, United Kingdom;1. Department of Clinical Psychology, Justus Liebig University Giessen, Otto-Behaghel-Str. 10F, 35394 Giessen, Germany;2. Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychotherapy, University of Cologne, Pohligstraße 1, 50969 Cologne, Germany;1. Faculty of Psychology, Southwest University (SWU), Chongqing, China;2. Bioimaging Core, Faculty of Health Sciences, University of Macau, Taipa, Macau SAR, China;3. Key Laboratory of Cognitive and Personality (SWU), Ministry of Education, Chongqing, China;4. Department of Sleep and Psychology, Daping Hospital, Research Institute of Surgery, Third Military Medical University, Chongqing, China |
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| Abstract: | Attentional biases have been proposed as maintaining and causal factors in anxiety, and it has been suggested that training attentional bias can impact on emotional responding. Given the severity of obsessive compulsive disorder (OCD) and the considerable number of clients who do not respond to traditional therapies, understanding the factors that maintain anxiety in OCD is critical for the development of effective treatments. This study investigated attentional biases in a homogenous group of OCD patients whose primary concern was checking (OCD-Check; n = 18) compared to a Control group individually matched for age, gender and level of education (Control; n = 18) using a dot probe task. No evidence of attentional bias, or of differences in orienting to or disengaging from checking-relevant stimuli, was found in the OCD group compared to the matched Control group. From this data, it would appear that attentional bias may not be a feature of obsessive compulsive checking. The limitations of the present study and future research directions are discussed. |
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