Attentional Bias to Threat-Related Information Among Individuals With Dental Complaints: The Role of Pain Expectancy

被引:6
作者
Dehghani, Mohsen [1 ]
Mohammadi, Somayyeh [2 ]
Sharpe, Louise [3 ]
Khatibi, Ali [4 ,5 ,6 ]
机构
[1] Shahid Beheshti Univ, Dept Psychol, Tehran, Iran
[2] Univ British Columbia, GF Strong Rehabil Ctr, Dept Occupat Sci & Occupat Therapy, Vancouver, BC, Canada
[3] Univ Sydney, Sch Psychol, Sydney, NSW, Australia
[4] Bilkent Univ, Psychol Dept, Ankara, Turkey
[5] Bilkent Univ, Sabuncu Brain Res Ctr, Interdisciplinary Program Neurosci, Ankara, Turkey
[6] Bilkent Univ, Sabuncu Brain Res Ctr, Natl Magnet Resonance Res Ctr UMRAM, Ankara, Turkey
关键词
attentional bias; dental pain; threat; pain expectancy; dot-probe; patients; SELECTIVE ATTENTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEAR; QUESTIONNAIRE; MAINTENANCE; DEPRESSION; AVOIDANCE; CHILDREN; VALIDITY; STIMULI;
D O I
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.00786
中图分类号
B84 [心理学];
学科分类号
04 ; 0402 ;
摘要
Expecting pain can be perceived as a threat may involve recruitment of cognitive strategies (such as attentional avoidance) which might help the person to reduce distress. The ecological validity of the paradigms aiming to study the attentional biases toward or away from threatening stimuli by manipulating the perception of threat in experimental settings has been questioned. Therefore, the current study aims to investigate the attentional bias toward or away from the threat when a confrontation with a real threatening and painful condition would be expected (i.e., dental treatment). One hundred and twenty-seven patients referred to three dentistry clinics for a dental treatment (experiment participants) and 30 individuals with no dental complaints (control participants) completed this study. Patients were randomly allocated to a high pain expectancy (HPE: n = 65) or a low pain expectancy (LPE: n = 62) expectancy condition. All participants completed questionnaires of distress, fear of pain, and fear of dental pain. Furthermore, they participated in a dot-probe task that assessed their attention to painful faces, dental pictures, and happy faces. In addition, before the treatment, participants reported their anticipated pain intensity and after the treatment, they reported the pain intensity that they perceived during the treatment using two separate visual analog scales. Patients in the HPE group showed a bias away from dental pictures compared to LPE and control group participants. HPE group patients also reported greater pain intensity during the treatment compared to LPE patients. Greater attentional bias away from dental pictures among HPE patients was associated with higher levels of fear of pain, fear of dental pain, and stress. Avoidance of highly salient threatening images can be seen as an unhelpful emotion-regulation strategy that individuals use to manage their fears. However, in this study, avoidance was associated with poorer outcomes.
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