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

  1. Cabrera Lafuente, Isabel
Dirigida por:
  1. Ignacio Maria Montorio Cerrato Director/a

Universidad de defensa: Universidad Autónoma de Madrid

Fecha de defensa: 26 de mayo de 2011

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

Tipo: Tesis

Teseo: 332613 DIALNET lock_openBiblos-e Archivo editor

Resumen

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.