title: Attention and anxiety: different attentional functioning under state and trait anxiety.
abstract: Anxiety modulates the functioning of attention. Although the existence of this relationship is clear, its nature is still poorly defined. Added are the facts that different types of anxiety--state or trait--may influence attention differently and that attention is not a unitary system. We studied the influence of such types of anxiety by means of a task that, using emotionally neutral information, assesses the efficiency of three attentional networks: orienting, alerting, and executive control. Results showed a double dissociation. Trait anxiety was related to deficiencies in the executive control network, but state anxiety was associated with an overfunctioning of the alerting and orienting networks.
authors.affiliation: Department of Experimental Psychology and Physiology of Behavior, University of Granada, Granada, Spain.
authors.forename: Antonia Pilar
authors.initials: AP
authors.lastname: Pacheco-Unguetti
authors.forename: Alberto
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Acosta
authors.forename: Alicia
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Callejas
authors.forename: Juan
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lupiáñez
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000339:Affect; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology*; D001143:Arousal; D001288:Attention; D002605:Character; D056344:Executive Function; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009949:Orientation; D010364:Pattern Recognition, Visual; D010555:Personality Inventory; D011930:Reaction Time; D055815:Young Adult