Anxiety and Attentional Bias in Preschool-Aged Children: An Eyetracking Study

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• 作者：Helen F. Dodd ; Jennifer L. Hudson ; Tracey Williams…
• 关键词：Attentional bias ; Faces ; Anxiety ; Avoidance ; Vigilance ; Child
• 刊名：Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：August 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：43
• 期：6
• 页码：1055-1065
• 全文大小：350 KB
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• 作者单位：Helen F. Dodd (1) (2)
  Jennifer L. Hudson (2)
  Tracey Williams (3)
  Talia Morris (2)
  Rebecca S. Lazarus (2)
  Yulisha Byrow (2)
  
  1. School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences, University of Reading, Earley Gate, Whiteknights, Reading, RG6 6AL, UK
  2. Centre for Emotional Health, Department of Psychology, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  3. Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Cognition and its Disorders, Department of Cognitive Science, Macquarie University, Sydney, Australia
  
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Child and School Psychology
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-2835

文摘

Extensive research has examined attentional bias for threat in anxious adults and school-aged children but it is unclear when this anxiety-related bias is first established. This study uses eyetracking technology to assess attentional bias in a sample of 83 children aged 3 or 4?years. Of these, 37 (19 female) met criteria for an anxiety disorder and 46 (30 female) did not. Gaze was recorded during a free-viewing task with angry-neutral face pairs presented for 1250?ms. There was no indication of between-group differences in threat bias, with both anxious and non-anxious groups showing vigilance for angry faces as well as longer dwell times to angry over neutral faces. Importantly, however, the anxious participants spent significantly less time looking at the faces overall, when compared to the non-anxious group. The results suggest that both anxious and non-anxious preschool-aged children preferentially attend to threat but that anxious children may be more avoidant of faces than non-anxious children.