Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Childhood Psychopathology: Associations with Discriminating Fearful and Angry Faces in Young Children.
Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Childhood Psychopathology: Associations with Discriminating Fearful and Angry Faces in Young Children.
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DOI：
10.1007/s10896-020-00242-5
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发表时间：
2021-11
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J
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作者：
Goldstein, Brandon L;Grasso, Damion J;McCarthy, Kimberly J;Wakschlag, Lauren S;Pine, Daniel S;Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J
儿童期暴露于创伤性暴力可能会影响儿童对威胁性面孔的反应，并增加精神病理学的风险。受虐待的儿童可能会表现出改变处理威胁的面孔，然而，目睹亲密伴侣暴力（IPV）对儿童的面部表情的歧视的影响是研究不足。情绪化的面孔处理差异与精神病理学有关，一些证据表明，改善检测愤怒的面孔在儿童与恐惧相关的焦虑症状，而外化症状与不良检测恐惧的面孔，也许是情绪化的面孔广泛。在这项横断面研究中，我们研究了歧视的威胁情绪的面孔（愤怒，恐惧）的经验，可能的虐待和目睹的物理IPV，以及精神病理学。儿童（N = 137，平均年龄= 5.01岁，SD = 0.81）完成了“面对人群的任务”，旨在检查愤怒和恐惧的面孔的歧视。孩子们要么在恐惧的干扰物中寻找愤怒的面孔，要么在愤怒的干扰物中寻找恐惧的面孔。可能的虐待儿童，目睹IPV，和症状进行了评估，在半结构化的母亲访谈。目睹暴力的儿童表现出较差的准确性时，可怕的面孔的目标，然而，可能的虐待的影响是不显着的。与恐惧相关的焦虑症状越严重，对恐惧面孔的准确性越差。外在症状与总体准确性较差相关。研究结果表明，IPV和与恐惧相关的焦虑症状与愤怒的干扰物存在时难以检测到可怕的面孔有关，与先前的研究一致。暴力的影响，并在情绪化的面孔处理的相关缺陷进行了讨论。
Childhood exposure to traumatic violence may shape how children respond to threatening faces and increase risk for psychopathology. Maltreated children may exhibit altered processing of threatening faces; however, the effects of witnessing intimate partner violence (IPV) on children’s discrimination of facial expressions is under-studied. Emotional face processing differentially relates to psychopathology, with some evidence suggesting improved detection of angry faces in children with fear-related anxiety symptoms, whereas externalizing symptoms are associated with poorer detection of fearful faces and perhaps emotional faces broadly. In this cross-sectional study, we examined discrimination of threatening emotional faces (angry, fearful) in relation to experiences of probable abuse and witnessing of physical IPV, as well as psychopathology. Children (N = 137, mean age = 5.01 years, SD = 0.81) completed a “face in the crowd task” designed to examine discrimination of angry and fearful faces. Children either searched for an angry face among fearful distractor faces or a fearful face among angry distractors. Probable child abuse, witnessed IPV, and symptoms were assessed in semi-structured maternal interviews. Children who witnessed violence showed poorer accuracy when fearful faces were the target; however, effects for probable abuse were non-significant. Greater fear-related anxiety symptoms were associated with poorer accuracy for fearful faces. Externalizing symptoms were associated with poorer overall accuracy. Findings suggest that IPV and fear-related anxiety symptoms were associated with difficulty detecting fearful faces when angry distractors were present, consistent with prior research. Implications of violence- and symptom-associated deficits in emotional face processing are discussed.