Threat bias in attention orienting: evidence of specificity in a large community-based study
Salum, G.A., Mogg, K., Bradley, B.P., Gadelha, A., Pan, P., Tananaha, A.C., Moriyama, T., Graeff-Martins, A.S., Jarros, R.B., Polanczyk, G., do Rosario, M.C., Leibenluft, E., Rohde, L.A., Manfro, G.G. and Pine, D.S. (2012) Threat bias in attention orienting: evidence of specificity in a large community-based study. Psychological Medicine
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Background: Preliminary research implicates threat-related attention biases in pediatric anxiety disorders. However, major questions exist concerning diagnostic specificity, effects of symptom-severity levels, and threat-stimulus exposure durations in attention paradigms. This study examines these issues in a large, community school-based sample.
Methods: A total of 2,046 children (ages 6-to-12) were assessed using the Development and Well Being Assessment (DAWBA), Childhood Behavior Checklist (CBCL) and dot-probe tasks. Children were classified based on presence or absence of “fear-related” disorders, “distress-related” disorders, and behavior disorders. Two dot-probe tasks, which differed in stimulus exposure, assessed attention biases for happy-face and threat-face cues. The main analysis included 1774 children.
Results: For attention bias scores, a three-way interaction emerged among face-cue emotional valence, diagnostic group, and internalizing-symptom severity (F=2.87, p<0.05). This interaction reflected different associations between internalizing symptom severity and threat-related attention bias across diagnostic groups. In children with no diagnosis (n=1411; mean difference=11.03; SE=3.47, df=1, p<0.001) and those with distress-related disorders (n=66; mean difference=10.63; SE=5.24, df=1, p<0.05), high internalizing symptoms predicted vigilance towards threat. However, in children with fear-related disorders (n=86; mean difference=-11.90; SE=5.94, df=1; p<0.05), high internalizing symptoms predicted an opposite tendency, manifesting as greater bias away from threat. These associations did not emerge in the behavior-disorder group (n=211).
Conclusions: The association between internalizing symptoms and biased orienting varies with the nature of developmental psychopathology. Both the form and severity of psychopathology moderates threat-related attention biases in children.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| ISSNs: | 0033-2917 (print) 1469-8978 (electronic) |
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| Subjects: | B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BF Psychology |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Social and Human Sciences > Psychology > Clinical Neuroscience |
| Item ID: | 340846 |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Jul 2012 10:55 |
| Last Modified: | 04 Jul 2012 10:55 |
| Contributors: | Salum, G.A. (Author) Mogg, K. (Author) Bradley, B.P. (Author) Gadelha, A. (Author) Pan, P. (Author) Tananaha, A.C. (Author) Moriyama, T. (Author) Graeff-Martins, A.S. (Author) Jarros, R.B. (Author) Polanczyk, G. (Author) do Rosario, M.C. (Author) Leibenluft, E. (Author) Rohde, L.A. (Author) Manfro, G.G. (Author) Pine, D.S. (Author) |
| Funder: | Brazilian government agencies: CNPq, CAPES and FAPESP |
| Date: | 2012 |
| Status: | Published |
| URI: | http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/340846 |
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