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Studies in Psychology
Estudios de Psicología
Volume 30, 2009 - Issue 1
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Análisis del procesamiento atencional de la información relacionada con el tabaco y la salud mediante una tarea stroop modificada

Attentional processing analysing of tobacco and health related information using a modified Stroop task

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Pages 21-30 | Published online: 23 Jan 2014
 

Resumen

Objetivos: Examinar si las advertencias sanitarias obligatorias logran capturar la atención de los fumadores y comprobar si este grupo presenta un sesgo atencional hacia las palabras relacionadas con el tabaco. Método: Una muestra de fumadores, exfumadores y no fumadores completan un stroop modificado compuesto por palabras-tabaco, palabras-salud y palabras neutras. Se manipula el posible efecto priming. Resultados: Las palabras relacionadas con la salud, extraídas de las advertencias sanitarias, no atraen la atención de los fumadores más que las palabras neutras. Al contrario de lo que ha sido descrito por otros autores, el presente estudio no detecta una hipervigilancia atencional hacia claves-tabaco en fumadores. Sin embargo, la tarea stroop tabaco que se ha diseñado muestra valor predictivo del rendimiento que caracteriza al grupo de sujetos fumadores. Conclusiones: Las palabras relacionadas con el tabaco y con la salud no ejercen un impacto atencional significativo en nuestra muestra de sujetos fumadores. El stroop tabaco podría ser de utilidad como marcador cognitivo de éxito en tratamientos de deshabituación del tabaquismo o ser predictor de riesgo de recaídas.

Abstract

Aims: To examine if compulsory health warnings are getting smokers' attention and to analyse if this group shows an attentional bias towards smoking related words. Method: A sample of smokers, former smokers and non-smokers were administered a modified Stroop task consisting in tobacco-related-words, health-related- words and neutral-words. A possible priming effect is manipulated. Results: It was observed that the health- warning-words do not attract smokers' attention more than the neutral-words. Contrary to what has been described by other authors, our study does not find an increasing amount of attention towards smoking-related- cues in smokers. However, the designed Stroop tobacco task shows predictive power of smokers' performance. Conclusions: Words related to tobacco and health do not have a significant attentional impact on our sample of smokers. The tobacco Stroop task could be useful as cognitive marker of the success of smoking cessation treatment or as predictor of the risk of smoking relapse.

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