Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents
| العنوان: | Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents |
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| المؤلفون: | Yaswanth Chintaluru, Emmaly L. Perks, Lauren D. Gulley, Dustin A. Haraden, Benjamin C. Mullin, Laura Pyle, Benjamin L. Hankin, Jacob B. W. Holzman |
| المصدر: | Psychological medicine. 52(8) |
| سنة النشر: | 2021 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | 050103 clinical psychology, Adolescent, media_common.quotation_subject, Emotions, Sample (statistics), Attentional bias, Anxiety, Attentional Bias, 03 medical and health sciences, 0302 clinical medicine, medicine, Humans, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Applied Psychology, media_common, 05 social sciences, Reproducibility of Results, Cognition, medicine.disease, Full sample, Anxiety Disorders, Facial Expression, Psychiatry and Mental health, medicine.symptom, Psychology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Anxiety disorder, Vigilance (psychology), Clinical psychology |
| الوصف: | BackgroundAttentional bias to threat has been implicated as a cognitive mechanism in anxiety disorders for youth. Yet, prior studies documenting this bias have largely relied on a method with questionable reliability (i.e. dot-probe task) and small samples, few of which included adolescents. The current study sought to address such limitations by examining relations between anxiety – both clinically diagnosed and dimensionally rated – and attentional bias to threat.MethodsThe study included a community sample of adolescents and employed eye-tracking methodology intended to capture possible biases across the full range of both automatic (i.e. vigilance bias) and controlled attentional processes (i.e. avoidance bias, maintenance bias). We examined both dimensional anxiety (across the full sample; n = 215) and categorical anxiety in a subset case-control analysis (n = 100) as predictors of biases.ResultsFindings indicated that participants with an anxiety disorder oriented more slowly to angry faces than matched controls. Results did not suggest a greater likelihood of initial orienting to angry faces among our participants with anxiety disorders or those with higher dimensional ratings of anxiety. Greater anxiety severity was associated with greater dwell time to neutral faces.ConclusionsThis is the largest study to date examining eye-tracking metrics of attention to threat among healthy and anxious youth. Findings did not support the notion that anxiety is characterized by heightened vigilance or avoidance/maintenance of attention to threat. All effects detected were extremely small. Links between attention to threat and anxiety among adolescents may be subtle and highly dependent on experimental task dimensions. |
| تدمد: | 1469-8978 0033-2917 |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::c27b3e3306776eefcee074fc3d74c46c https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33641686 |
| حقوق: | CLOSED |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....c27b3e3306776eefcee074fc3d74c46c |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 14698978 00332917 |
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