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Tatsuya HOSOBA, Makoto IWANAGA, [in Japanese]Article type: Article
2001 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 1-12
Published: March 31, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: April 06, 2019
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe purpose of the present study was to examine the effect on fear-learning of control of the negative affective value of conditioned stimuli. Undergraduate and graduate students were assigned to either the experimental group (14 students) or the control group (14 students). In the experimental group, imagery training was conducted to decrease skin conductance, subjective disgust, subjective arousal, and subjective anxiety to a fear-relevant stimulus; the control group stimulus was a fear-irrelevant one. After the imagery training, all participants were given a fear conditioning procedure followed by extinction. In the conditioning procedure, fear-relevant stimuli served as conditioned stimuli, and a white noise as the unconditioned stimulus. The main results were as follows: (1) during the conditioning procedure, SCR amplitude, subjective disgust, subjective arousal, and subjective anxiety were smaller in the experimental group than in the control group; (2) at the termination of the extinction procedure, subjective arousal and anxiety had been extinguished in the experimental group, but not in the control group. These results suggest that fear learning could be inhibited by a decrease in the negative affective value of fear-relevant stimuli before fear learning.View full abstractDownload PDF (989K) -
Yuya FUJIHARA, Makoto IWANAGA, Hidetoshi SEIWA, Masayuki SAKUMURAArticle type: Article
2001 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 13-23
Published: March 31, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: April 06, 2019
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSCognitive bias, such as attentional bias and memory bias for threat information, has been observed in persons who report an anxious mood. Previous studies have reported that state anxiety tends to influence attentional basis, whereas trait anxiety influences memory bias. The present study aimed to investigate the influence of trait anxiety and state anxiety on attentional bias and implicit memory bias. Anxious mood was manipulated through an avoidance task with aversive sounds. Non-clinical volunteers (15 high on trait anxiety, and 15 low) performed a dot-probe detection task for measuring attention bias, and a word completion task for measuring memory bias. High trait anxiety participants showed attentional bias toward threat information, regardless of the level of their state anxiety, and showed implicit memory bias in the high-anxious situation. Low trait anxiety participants showed only attentional bias, and only in the high anxious situation. These findings suggest that in an anxious mood, attentional bias has priority over memory bias.View full abstractDownload PDF (1015K) -
Shinichi SUZUKIArticle type: Article
2001 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 25-32
Published: March 31, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: April 06, 2019
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSThe present case study reports treatment with graded exposure, coping skills training, and cognitive restructuring for anticipatory anxiety and agoraphobic symptoms in a patient with ventricular tachycardia. The patient was a 30-year-old woman without a history of anxiety disorder. Her anxiety symptoms and agoraphobic symptoms developed after she experienced a severe heart attack. She reported that this illness led her to anticipate impending sudden death. The treatment focused on improving her controllability and the efficacy of her coping with the feared situation. In addition, collaboration among the doctors, nurses, and behavior therapist appeared to be effective in relieving her anxiety symptoms. The effectiveness of cognitive behavior therapy for anxiety symptoms in patients with heart disease was discussed.View full abstractDownload PDF (772K) -
Yoshinori ITO, Kaneo NEDATEArticle type: Article
2001 Volume 27 Issue 1 Pages 33-46
Published: March 31, 2001
Released on J-STAGE: April 06, 2019
JOURNAL FREE ACCESSCan we perform behavioral self-control when our negative affect is aroused? To answer this question, the present study examined the influence of aroused negative affect on self-monitoring ability. Participants, 38 female university students who scored high or low on the neuroticism dimension of personality, were randomly assigned to either the affect-arousal (A) group or the neutral (N) group. They observed a videotape in which a model performed complex motor responses (sign language), and then were asked to reproduce the modeled responses. Videotaped affect-arousing or neutral stimuli were presented between the pre- and posttests. The measures were self-monitoring ability score, calculated by subtracting each participant's perceived score from her objective score on degree of reproduction, and reproduction time. The results indicated that the participants' self-monitoring ability in the arousal group deteriorated more than that in the neutral group. This suggests that people cannot adequately exercise behavioral self-control when their negative affect is aroused. The results were discussed from the viewpoints of the theory of allocation of attentional resources and two-process theory.View full abstractDownload PDF (1264K)
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