Is trait resilience characterized by specific patterns of attentional bias to emotional stimuli and attentional control?

Resilience as a multimodal dynamic process

“…Finally, in a cohort study of male soldiers, higher trait resilience was linked to higher scores on measures of attentional control (Schafer et al, 2015). Again, these results all demonstrate patterns of neurocognitive performance which are distinct to individuals who are thought to be engaging the resilience process.…”

A simple attention test in the acute phase of a major depressive episode is predictive of later functional remission

“…Attention to positive and negative stimuli may indeed encourage trait resilience (Schwager & Rothermund, 2014), a better ability to control attention enabling individuals to decide which internal and external stimuli they attend to and thus promote adaptive emotion regulation (Troy & Mauss, 2011). In one study, soldiers with higher resilience capacities had higher attentional control (Schäfer, 2015).…”

The interaction effect of attentional bias and attentional control on dispositional anxiety among adolescents

“…Anxiety disturbs the balance between these two systems such that the stimulus-driven process (i.e., attentional bias) is more influential than the goal-directed process (i.e., attentional control) in the cognitive process (Eysenck et al, 2007). Other researchers suggested that attentional bias and attentional control interact to affect anxiety (Petersen & Posner, 2012;Schafer et al, 2015). For instance, an influential study by Derryberry and Reed (2002) found that anxiety had a positive association with negative attentional bias only among individuals with low attentional control, that is, attentional control moderated the relationship between anxiety and attentional bias.…”

“…Similarly, the present study also examined the role of positive attentional bias in the above relationships. Drawing references from the past literatures on attentional bias and attentional control (Derryberry & Reed, 2002;Schafer et al, 2015), this study hypothesized two possible patterns of relationship with positive attentional bias. One possibility is that attentional control would act as a moderator on the relationship between positive attentional bias and anxiety, with a stronger negative relationship between positive attentional bias and anxiety in students with lower attentional control.…”

“…The major objective of the present study was to examine the interaction effect of attentional control and attentional bias on anxiety (Petersen & Posner, 2012;Schafer et al, 2015) among normal adolescents. A significant negative attentional bias 9 attentional control effect on anxiety was obtained in the hierarchical regression analysis with both positive and negative attentional biases taken into consideration (Table 5).…”