Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students
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 (a...
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| author | Merchán Carrillo, Ana María Ruiz Castañeda, Pamela Daza González, María Teresa |
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| description | 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 efficient executive control network than L-AI men. Executive control was negatively correlated with AI in men, but not in women. These results will be discussed in terms of individual differences in emotion regulation and attentional networks. |
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| spelling | oai:repositorio.ual.es:10835-152662024-01-19T13:24:53Z Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students Merchán Carrillo, Ana María Ruiz Castañeda, Pamela Daza González, María Teresa Affect Intensity Gender differences Attentional Network Test Executive Control Executive Attention 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 efficient executive control network than L-AI men. Executive control was negatively correlated with AI in men, but not in women. These results will be discussed in terms of individual differences in emotion regulation and attentional networks. 2024-01-19T13:24:52Z 2024-01-19T13:24:52Z 2021-03-21 info:eu-repo/semantics/article Merchán, A., Ruiz-Castañeda, P., & Daza, M. T. (2021b). Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students. Personality and Individual Differences, 177, 110827. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110827 01918869 http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15266 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110827 en Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 Internacional http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess Donald H. Saklofske |
| spellingShingle | Affect Intensity Gender differences Attentional Network Test Executive Control Executive Attention Merchán Carrillo, Ana María Ruiz Castañeda, Pamela Daza González, María Teresa Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| title | Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| title_full | Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| title_fullStr | Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| title_full_unstemmed | Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| title_short | Affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| title_sort | affect intensity and gender differences in the functioning of attentional networks in university students |
| topic | Affect Intensity Gender differences Attentional Network Test Executive Control Executive Attention |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/10835/15266 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.paid.2021.110827 |
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