Implicit Measures of Extreme Psychological Distress in Young Healthy Adults: Cardiac Autonomic Activity and Attentional Bias
Ada H. Zohar,
Yossi Levi-Belz,
Marian Linetzky
Abstract:Background: There is research showing that cardiac sympathetic autonomous activity is elevated and cardiac parasympathetic autonomous activity is decreased in individuals contending with serious psychopathology. There is also work showing that attentional bias to emotionally distressing stimuli is affected by depression and anxiety. This study hypothesized that individuals who were high on suicide-related attention bias (AB) and cardiac sympathetic activity (SNS index) would also have elevated psychological di… Show more
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