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Attention control: Relationships between self-report and behavioural measures, and symptoms of anxiety and depression
Abstract
Individual differences in attention control are proposed to contribute to anxiety and depression. However, self-reported attention control, assessed on the Attentional Control Scale (ACS), appears to be a heterogeneous construct with separate components of focusing (e.g., concentrating, resisting distraction) and shifting (e.g., flexible switching of attention between tasks). Moreover, these constructs are proposed to relate differently to anxiety and depression. Two studies are reported which investigated relationships between ACS focusing and shifting and (i) an objective behavioural measure of attention control from the Attention Network Task (ANT); and (ii) anxiety and depression symptoms in two separate non-clinical samples (Ns = 165 and 193). Results of Study 1 indicated that only ACS focusing was significantly associated with ANT attention control; with both measures reflecting resistance to distraction. In both studies, self-reported ability to focus attention (ACS focusing) was associated with lower anxiety; and greater attentional flexibility (ACS shifting) was associated with fewer depression symptoms.
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Metadata
- Authors
- Reinholdt-Dunne, M. L., Mogg, K., & Bradley, B. P.
- Affiliations
- University of Southampton (GB)
- Venue
- Cognition & Emotion
- Publisher
- Informa UK Limited
- Published
- 2013-04
- Volume
- 27
- Issue
- 3
- Pages
- 430-440
- ISSN
- 0269-9931 (ISSN-L)
- 1464-0600
- OpenAlex
- W2077841173
- Cited by
- 119
- References
- 26
- Citations by year
- 2026: 9 · 2025: 9 · 2024: 13 · 2023: 5 · 2022: 12 · 2021: 15 · 2020: 11 · 2019: 12 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 6 · 2016: 10 · 2015: 7 · 2014: 3 · 2013: 2
- FWCI
- 5.15
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Cognition & Emotion (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- ePrints Soton (University of Southampton) (submittedVersion)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Keywords
- attentional control, Attention Network Task, attentional flexibility, attentional shift, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, individual differences, non-clinical sample
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Attention, Depression, Female, Humans, Male, Psychomotor Performance, Executive Function, Self Report
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