Global and Local Attention Processing in Depressed Mood

Attention Processing in Depressed Mood: Testing Defocused Attention Hypothesis

Depressed mood effects attention and its span. The present study aimed to compare the allocation of attention to relevant and irrelevant neutral stimuli in depressed and non-depressed participants. The studied populations include all the students from Azad university of Ahwaz and the undergraduate psychology students from Shahid Bahonar University of Kerman. After completion of Beck Depression ...

Mood and global-local focus: priming a local focus reverses the link between mood and global-local processing.

Positive moods promote a focus on the forest (global focus) and negative moods, a focus on the trees (local focus). Is this well-established link fixed or variable? Does it reflect a direct influence of affect, as usually assumed, or is it frequently observed simply because a global perspective is often dominant? If affect serves as information about the value of currently accessible inclinatio...

Depressed mood mediates decline in cognitive processing speed in caregivers.

PURPOSE Very few studies have examined cognitive decline in caregivers versus noncaregivers, and only 1 study has examined mediators of such decline. We evaluated the relationship between caregiver status and decline on the digit symbol test (DST; a measure of processing speed, attention, cognitive-motor translation, and visual scanning) and whether this relationship was mediated by depressed m...

Stress Reactivity and Depressed Mood 1 Stress Reactivity and Vulnerability to Depressed Mood in College Students

Reading problems and depressed mood.

Although reading difficulties show well-established overlaps with disruptive behavior disorders in childhood, much less is known about reading-disabled children's vulnerability to emotional difficulties. Using longitudinal data from 6 assessments of boys in the Pittsburgh Youth Study, we found robust links between severe, persistent reading problems and increased risk for depressed mood in a co...

The Effectiveness of Emotion Regulation Training on Control Depressed Mood, Anger and Anxiety in Obese Girls

The aim of this study was to evaluate the effectiveness of a self-compassion training program on Control Depressed Mood, Anger, and Anxiety in Obese Girls. The research method was quasi-experimental with a pretest-posttest design with a control group. The statistical sample of the study was 40 obese Girls students in the tenth and eleventh grades who were selected from among the students of Aha...