A Comparison of Selective Processing of Data on the Threat in Patients With Released AnixietyDisorder and Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder
Subject Areas : EducationalKeywords: threat, post traumatic stress disorder, selective processing of Data, Released Anxiety Disorder,
Abstract :
This research is of causal-comparative research type done with the aim of comparing selective information processing and the role of cognitive attention in the process of anxiety disorders (GAD and PTSD). In this research three groups of subjects including a normal group, the group with generalized anxiety disorder and the group of cases with post-traumatic stress disorders (selected of psychological clinics and private psychiatrics clinics in Neyshabour) were selected randomly and then tested in a stroop test and a recognition test. The results of the study indicated that patients with generalized anixiety disorder was compared with other groups, their attention bias was toward signs of physical and social threat. Although patients with PTSD showed attention bias just toward threatening signs of PTSD, processing these stimuli selectively. One other findings of the study indicates that in contrast with more processing of signs of social and physical threat in the generalized anxiety disorder group and threat signs related to PTSD group, three groups were related to remembering the sings after the test.
