Some people are so hyper-alert to potential threats in their environment that they have trouble fully enjoying themselves. Here's how to take it down a notch, writes swhitbo
As impressive as these findings are, the authors sought to establish the predictive value of ABQ scores on a piece of observable behavior. They did so by presenting one group of participants with an eye-tracking task involving sets of 16 black-and-white photos of faces, divided in half between angry and neutral expressions.
The ABQ performed as expected in this behavioral task, showing positive correlations both with dwell time and fixation on angry faces, but it was the difficulty to disengage from threat subscale that showed the strongest relationship. The sizes of these relationships, though statistically significant, were small, leading the authors to comment on the difficulty of showing any type of relationship between a self-report and lab-based behavioral task.
In interpreting this last finding, the authors note that the lab-based test was just one manifestation of attentional bias toward threat. More generally, “the ABQ scores likely reflect a subjective integration of accumulated past experiences in which preferential attention towards threats had consciously emerged.
To do so, go back through those questions again and ask yourself how automatic those responses are for you. Do you assume that it’s best to be on the lookout for things that could harm you, and never even doubt whether this is the right approach? It’s possible, of course, that you have learned, through those “accumulated past experiences” that it’s best to prepare for the worst, and so even though you know these responses alter your ability to enjoy life, you believe that they’re necessary. Certainly, the last two years of the pandemic have put everyone on edge, particularly people who have taken lockdown and other prevention-related measures more seriously than others.
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