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Anxiety did not differ following worry in verbal or imagery form in either group.
High and low-worriers performed a working memory task, random interval generation, whilst thinking about a worry in verbal or imagery form.
However, it is important to ascertain this as it would mean that stressful events could have a greater impact on this population, at least (and perhaps especially) in an imagery form.
A similar prediction is made by the reduced concreteness theory, which proposes that worry is predominantly experienced in a more abstract-verbal form rather than in a more concrete-visual imagery form, and that this reduced concreteness leads to negative consequences for problem solving and affect regulation (Borkovec et al., 1998; Stöber, 1998).
Leigh and Hirsch (2011) replicated the above finding using a non-spatial random interval generation task and not only confirmed that worry in its usual verbal form depleted attentional control resources in high worriers, but also found that thinking about worry topics in imagery form had less effect – in this latter condition high worriers did not differ from non-worriers.
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