TY - JOUR PY - 2012// TI - Attentional bias to violent images in survivors of dating violence JO - Cognition and emotion A1 - Lee, Jeong-Ha A1 - Lee, Jang-Han SP - 1124 EP - 1133 VL - 26 IS - 6 N2 - This study investigated the time-course characteristics of attentional bias, such as vigilance and maintenance, towards violent stimuli in dating violence (DV) survivors. DV survivors with PTSD symptoms (DV-PTSD group; n=14), DV survivors without PTSD symptoms (Trauma Control group; n=14), and individuals who were never exposed to dating violence (NDV group; n=15) viewed slides that presented four categories of images (violent, dysphoric, positive, and neutral) per slide, for ten seconds. Our results revealed that the DV-PTSD group spent more time on violent stimuli than did the Trauma Control or NDV groups. The DV survivors, both with and without PTSD symptoms, spent more time on dysphoric stimuli and less time on happy stimuli than did the NDV group. In addition to the effects of PTSD, researchers should also be considering the effects of simple traumatic exposure.
Language: en
LA - en SN - 0269-9931 UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/02699931.2011.638906 ID - ref1 ER -