Exploring links between neuroticism and psychoticism personality traits, attentional biases to threat and friendship quality in 9-11-year-olds
Exploring links between neuroticism and psychoticism personality traits, attentional biases to threat and friendship quality in 9-11-year-olds
The current study used an eye-movement Remote Distractor Paradigm (RDP) to explore attention to threat and considered associations with personality traits (neuroticism and psychoticism) and self-reported friendship quality in children aged 9-11 years. The RDP asked children to look at and identify a target presented on a computer display in the presence or absence of a central, parafoveal or peripheral visual distractor (an angry, happy or neutral face). The results showed that symptoms of neuroticism were associated with hypervigilance for threat (i.e., slower latencies to initiate eye movements to the target in the presence of angry versus happy or neutral faces). In addition, when distractors were presented centrally, this relationship was most evident in children who reported lower levels of attentional control. Psychoticism traits were associated with increased selective attention to all distractors (as measured by directional errors to face stimuli) and to child reported lower friendship quality. Moreover, the negative relationship between psychoticism and friendship characteristics associated with companionship was mediated via attentional capture of threat (i.e., a greater proportion of directional errors to angry distractors). The findings have potential to inform the development of translational research, to reduce symptoms of psychopathology and address attentional biases to threat with an aim to improve peer relationships in late childhood.
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Pavlou, Katerina
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Hadwin, Julie
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Benson, Valerie
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Pavlou, Katerina
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Hadwin, Julie
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Benson, Valerie
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Pavlou, Katerina, Hadwin, Julie and Benson, Valerie
(2016)
Exploring links between neuroticism and psychoticism personality traits, attentional biases to threat and friendship quality in 9-11-year-olds.
Journal of Experimental Psychopathology, 7 (3), .
(doi:10.5127/jep.055316).
Abstract
The current study used an eye-movement Remote Distractor Paradigm (RDP) to explore attention to threat and considered associations with personality traits (neuroticism and psychoticism) and self-reported friendship quality in children aged 9-11 years. The RDP asked children to look at and identify a target presented on a computer display in the presence or absence of a central, parafoveal or peripheral visual distractor (an angry, happy or neutral face). The results showed that symptoms of neuroticism were associated with hypervigilance for threat (i.e., slower latencies to initiate eye movements to the target in the presence of angry versus happy or neutral faces). In addition, when distractors were presented centrally, this relationship was most evident in children who reported lower levels of attentional control. Psychoticism traits were associated with increased selective attention to all distractors (as measured by directional errors to face stimuli) and to child reported lower friendship quality. Moreover, the negative relationship between psychoticism and friendship characteristics associated with companionship was mediated via attentional capture of threat (i.e., a greater proportion of directional errors to angry distractors). The findings have potential to inform the development of translational research, to reduce symptoms of psychopathology and address attentional biases to threat with an aim to improve peer relationships in late childhood.
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Submitted date: 30 June 2016
Accepted/In Press date: 30 June 2016
e-pub ahead of print date: 3 July 2016
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Cognition, Clinical Neuroscience
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URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/410736
ISSN: 2043-8087
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