Journal of anxiety disorders
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Comparative Study
Attention in sub-clinical obsessive-compulsive checkers.
The aim of the study was to explore differential attention profiles, according to attention types, in sub-clinical obsessive-compulsive checkers compared to controls. To examine attention biases in obsessive-compulsive phenomena, we compared sub-clinical checkers to non-checkers on their recall and recognition performances, using neutral and threat-relevant stimuli in three attention paradigms: focused attention, divided attention, and passive attention. ⋯ Even though instructions and tasks were different in each attention paradigm, the checkers showed similar attention biases in all paradigms. Results indicate that there is an attention bias in obsessive-compulsive checkers that is independent from the type of attention.