Parental Expressed Emotion-Criticism and Neural Markers of Sustained Attention to Emotional Faces in Children
Parental Expressed Emotion-Criticism and Neural Markers of Sustained Attention to Emotional Faces in Children
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DOI：
10.1080/15374416.2018.1453365
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发表时间：
2018-01-01
影响因子：
4.2
通讯作者：
Gibb, Brandon E.
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作者：
James, Kiera M.;Owens, Max;Gibb, Brandon E.
越来越多的证据表明环境影响对儿童对情感显着刺激的信息处理偏差的影响。本研究的目的是通过检查父母批评（表达的情绪批评，或 EE-Crit）与儿童面部表情情绪处理之间的关系来扩展这项研究。具体来说，我们研究了 EE-Crit 与儿童检测面部情绪表现的敏感性之间的关系。我们还检查了持续注意力的神经标志物，即晚期正电位（LPP）事件相关电位成分（ERP）。参与者包括 87 名儿童（7-11 岁；53.3% 为女性，77.8% 白人）及其父母（24-71 岁；90% 为女性，88.9% 为白人）。家长完成五分钟演讲样本以确定对孩子的 EE-Crit 水平。孩子们完成了变形面孔任务，在此过程中评估了行为和 ERP 反应。尽管检测面部情绪表现的敏感性没有群体差异，但我们发现，与低 EE-Crit 父母相比，父母的孩子对所有面部情绪表现（恐惧、快乐、悲伤）表现出较少的关注（较小的 LPP 幅度）。这些结果表明，挑剔父母的孩子可能会对情感上显着的人际刺激表现出回避模式。
There is growing evidence for the role of environmental influences on children's information-processing biases for affectively salient stimuli. The goal of this study was to extend this research by examining the relation between parental criticism (expressed emotion-criticism, or EE-Crit) and children's processing of facial displays of emotion. Specifically, we examined the relation between EE-Crit and children's sensitivity in detecting facial displays of emotion. We also examined a neural marker of sustained attention, the late positive potential (LPP) event-related potential component (ERP). Participants were 87 children (ages 7-11 years; 53.3% female, 77.8% Caucasian) and their parents (ages 24-71; 90% female, 88.9% Caucasian). Parents completed the Five-Minute Speech Sample to determine levels of EE-Crit toward their child. Children completed a morphed faces task during which behavioral and ERP responses were assessed. Although there were no group differences in sensitivity in detecting facial displays of emotion, we found that children of parents exhibiting high, compared to low, EE-Crit displayed less attention (smaller LPP magnitudes) to all facial displays of emotion (fearful, happy, sad). These results suggest that children of critical parents may exhibit an avoidant pattern of attention to affectively-salient interpersonal stimuli.