ATTENTION CONTROL, A PREDICTOR OF EMOTIONAL SELFREGULATION
ATTENTION CONTROL, A PREDICTOR OF EMOTIONAL SELFREGULATION

Summary/Abstract: The current theoretical knowledge points to a strong link between attention control and emotional self-regulation, and it remains debatable whether or not these two processes are distinct. The results of the studies support an overlap of them, generating a new direction of debate on the primacy of one of them, even if there is consensus on their simultaneous development. Using the Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) to measure attention control, respectively selective attention and inhibition - dimensions of attention control in the executive functions paradigm - and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), to measure the sub-dimensions of emotional self-regulation dysfunction, the existence of 3 models was demonstrated that predict the values of emotional self-regulation, respectively the sub-dimensions of its dysfunctions - nonacceptance of emotional responses, difficulties engaging in goal-directed behavior and impulse control difficulties - based on attention control values and indicators - efficiency rate and accuracy of NoGo stimulus testing. The study concludes the need for further research on possible therapeutic interventions aimed at training attentional control to achieve better emotional self-regulation, some methodological revisions, such as including response times below 100 ms and processing data obtained from reaction time samples, a larger number of subjects and an off-line deployment.

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