Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified stroop task
Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified stroop task
This study used an emotional face stroop task to investigate the effects of self-report trait anxiety, social concern (SC), and chronological age (CA) on reaction time to match coloured outlines of angry, happy, and neutral faces (and control faces with scrambled features) with coloured buttons in a community sample of 74 children aged 6 –12 years. The results showed an interference of colour matching for angry (relative to neutral) faces in children with elevated SC. The same effect was not found for happy or control faces. In addition, the results suggest that selective attention to angry faces in children with social concern (SC) was not significantly moderated by age.
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Hadwin, J.A.
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Donnelly, N.
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Richards, A.
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French, C.C.
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Patel, U.
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2008
Hadwin, J.A.
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Donnelly, N.
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Richards, A.
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French, C.C.
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Patel, U.
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Hadwin, J.A., Donnelly, N., Richards, A., French, C.C. and Patel, U.
(2008)
Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified stroop task.
British Journal of Developmental Psychology, 27 (2), .
(doi:10.1348/026151008X315503).
Abstract
This study used an emotional face stroop task to investigate the effects of self-report trait anxiety, social concern (SC), and chronological age (CA) on reaction time to match coloured outlines of angry, happy, and neutral faces (and control faces with scrambled features) with coloured buttons in a community sample of 74 children aged 6 –12 years. The results showed an interference of colour matching for angry (relative to neutral) faces in children with elevated SC. The same effect was not found for happy or control faces. In addition, the results suggest that selective attention to angry faces in children with social concern (SC) was not significantly moderated by age.
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