Procesamiento de la información emocional relacionado con la ansiedad en las personas mayores

  1. Cabrera Lafuente, Isabel
Dirixida por:
  1. Ignacio Maria Montorio Cerrato Director

Universidade de defensa: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 26 de maio de 2011

Tribunal:
  1. Juan Botella Ausina Presidente/a
  2. María Márquez González Secretario/a
  3. Carmelo Vázquez Valverde Vogal
  4. Onésimo Juncos Rabadán Vogal
  5. Roberto Nuevo Benítez Vogal
  6. Rosa María Baños Rivera Vogal
  7. José Miguel Latorre Postigo Vogal

Tipo: Tese

Teseo: 332613 DIALNET lock_openBiblos-e Archivo editor

Resumo

PROCESAMIENTO DE LA INFORMACIÓN EMOCIONAL RELACIONADO CON LA ANSIEDAD EN LAS PERSONAS MAYORES Vulnerability to anxiety is characterized by two types of biased patterns of selective processing of emotional information (Mathews and MacLeod, 2005). First, heightened anxiety vulnerability is associated with an attentional bias towards threatening stimuli. Second, such vulnerability also is associated with an interpretive bias, involving an increased tendency to resolve ambiguity in a threatening manner. These anxiety-linked effects have been well demonstrated in young adult population. However, few studies have investigated the relationship between anxiety vulnerability and the cognitive processing of emotional information in older people. The present work aimed to determine whether this relationship may differ in older adults.