Ability to disengage attention predicts negative affect

By R. Compton. 2000

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Subfields: Cognitive Neuroscience, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology

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Contemplative Education: A Systematic, Evidence-Based Review of the effect of Meditation Interventions in Schools (2015, background): “In a non-clinical sample, Compton (2000) found that individuals with slower attentional disengagement experienced more negative affect in response to a distressing film clip compared to controls, suggesting that attentional regulation is an important predictor of well-being.”
Induced processing biases have causal effects on anxiety (2002, result): “Evidence from this last study, and from other similar research (e.g., Compton, 2000; Fox, Russo, Bowles & Dutton, 2001) strongly suggests that these effects arise because anxiety-prone individuals have greater difficulty in disengaging attentional resources from threatening information.”
Addiction motivation reformulated: an affective processing model of negative reinforcement. (2004, background): “…on attention allocation may produce reciprocal effects such that an individual cannot disengage his/her attention from distressing material (e.g., a stressor or from mounting craving/dysphoria itself), and this may foster greater subsequent negative affect (Compton, 2000; Derryberry & Reed, 2002).”
Cognitive Behavioural Processes Across Psychological Disorders: A Transdiagnostic Approach To Research And Treatment (2004, background): “It is also possible that people with depression have difficulty in controlling their attention sufficiently to disengage from negative material (Compton 2000).”
Angry faces hold the eyes (2011, background): “Specifically, it has been proposed that the bias to maintain attention at the source of threat could be related to the increased levels of anxiety (Compton, 2000).”
Attentional control moderates the relationship between activation of the cognitive attentional syndrome and symptoms of psychopathology (2012, unknown): “…to regulate bottom-up emotional responses; Derryberry & Reed, 2002) is positively associated with indicators of positive well-being (e.g., positive affect) and inversely associated with indicators of negative well-being (e.g., neuroticism: Compton, 2000; Eisenberg, Fabes, Guthrie, & Reiser, 2000).”