Eye tracking and attentional bias for depressive internet memes in depression
| Autor: | Ashileen Arriveena Rajenthran, Jennifer Drabble, Ghlenda Cau, Mollie Lowe, Frayer Hershaw, Umair Akram, Jason Ellis, Carissa Trommelen |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2021 |
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050103 clinical psychology
medicine.medical_specialty Neurology Eye Movements Significant group Attentional bias Attentional Bias 03 medical and health sciences Depressive memes 0302 clinical medicine medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Eye-Tracking Technology Depression (differential diagnoses) Internet meme Internet Depression General Neuroscience 05 social sciences Internet memes Fixation (psychology) Gaze C800 Psychology C800 Eye tracking Selective attention Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology Research Article |
| Zdroj: | Experimental Brain Research |
| ISSN: | 0014-4819 |
| Popis: | Previous research highlights the potential benefits of engaging with depressive internet memes for those experiencing symptoms of depression. This study aimed to determine whether: compared to non-depressed controls, individuals experiencing depressive symptoms were quicker to orient and maintain overall attention for internet memes depicting depressive content relative to neutral memes. N = 21 individuals were grouped based on the severity of reported depression symptoms using the PhQ-9. Specifically, a score of: ≤ 4 denoted the control group; and ≥ 15 the depressive symptoms group. Participants viewed a series of meme pairs depicting depressive and neutral memes for periods of 4000 ms. Data for the first fixation onset and duration, total fixation count and total fixation and gaze duration of eye-movements were recorded. A significant group x meme-type interaction indicated that participants with depressive symptoms displayed significantly more fixations on depressive rather than neutral memes. These outcomes provide suggestive evidence for the notion that depressive symptoms are associated with an attentional bias towards socio-emotionally salient stimuli. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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