Test-retest reliability of the emotional stroop task: examining the paradox of measurement change.

Full Abstract

The Emotional Stroop (ES) task (I. H. Gotlib & C. D. McCann, 1984) has been proposed as an experimental measure to assess the processing of emotion or the bias in attention of emotion-laden information. However, study results have not been consistent. To further examine its reliability for empirical research, the authors of this study administered the ES task to 33 participants on 2 separate occasions separated by 1 week. Results indicated that retest reliabilities for reaction times (RTs) derived from the 3 separate emotion conditions (manic, neutral, and depressive) across the 1 week interval were very high. However, consistent with previous research, the reliabilities were very low for the interference indices (manic and depressive). These low reliabilities reflect the very high intercorrelation between the RTs derived from the 3 conditions. The authors concluded that a better indicator of the reliability for this task is the individual RTs from each emotion condition.

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Author information

Author/s: Eide, P (P); Kemp, A (A); Silberstein, R B (RB); Nathan, P J (PJ); Stough, C (C);

Affiliation: Brain Sciences Institute, Swinburne University of Technology, Hawthorn, Victoria, Australia.

Journal and publication information

Publication Type: Evaluation Studies; Journal Article

Journal: The Journal of psychology (J Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)

Reference: 2002-Sep; vol 136 (issue 5) : pp 514-20

Dates: Created 2002/11/14; Completed 2003/02/26; Revised 2004/11/17;

PMID: 12431035, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 12/26/2008)

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Adult
Attention
Color
Emotions
Female

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