Research suggests that, during stress, resilient individuals use positive emotion regulation
strategies and experience a greater number of positive emotions than those who are less resilient.
Therefore, differences could be expected in attentional biases towards emotional stimuli based
on resilience. The current study investigated attentional biases towards neutral, negative and
positive images in response to varying levels of resilence and mood induction conditions
(neutral, negative and positive). Sixty participants viewed a series of pre and post-mood
induction slides in order to measure attentional biases to emotional stimuli. The study provided
evidence for the presence of trait and state congruent attentional biases. More resilient
individuals demonstrated an initial bias towards positive stimuli and once emotion was aroused,
the bias was away from negative stimuli. Additionally, mood congruent attentional biases were
observed for participants induced into positive and negative mood states. Implications as they
apply to research and clinical practice are discussed.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:LACETR/oai:collectionscanada.gc.ca:OSUL.10219/2143 |
| Date | 17 March 2014 |
| Creators | Valcheff, Danielle |
| Publisher | Laurentian University of Sudbury |
| Source Sets | Library and Archives Canada ETDs Repository / Centre d'archives des thèses électroniques de Bibliothèque et Archives Canada |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
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