Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students
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URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15266
ISSN: 01918869
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110827
ISSN: 01918869
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110827
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2021-03-21Resumen
Affect intensity (AI) refers to individual differences in the intensity with which people subjectively experience emotions. High AI is an aspect of emotion dysregulation that is present in a variety of mood and anxiety disorders. The present study evaluates the functioning of attentional networks (alerting, orienting, and executive control) for non-emotional stimuli in healthy subjects classified as having High (H-AI) and Low (L-AI) AI levels through clustering methods. A sample of 200 university students (100 women), aged between 18 and 25 years old, completed the Affect Intensity Measure and the Attentional Network Test (ANT). Women obtained higher AI scores than men and were more highly represented in the H-AI cluster. In ANT, mean response time was significantly shorter in men than in women, but men showed a worse functioning of the alerting network than women (which was not observed for the executive control and orienting networks). In addition, H-AI men exhibited a more efficie...
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Affect Intensity
Gender differences
Attentional Network Test
Executive Control
Executive Attention