Subclinically Anxious Adolescents Do Not Display Attention Biases When Processing Emotional Faces - An Eye-Tracking Study.
Subclinically Anxious Adolescents Do Not Display Attention Biases When Processing Emotional Faces - An Eye-Tracking Study.
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在处理情感面孔时，亚赛焦虑的青少年在处理情绪面孔时不会表现出注意力偏见。
DOI：
10.3389/fpsyg.2018.01584
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发表时间：
2018
影响因子：
3.8
通讯作者：
Lau JYF
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文献类型：
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作者：
Kadosh KC;Haller SP;Schliephake L;Duta M;Scerif G;Lau JYF
最近的研究表明，情绪调节的早期困难沿着发展为精神疾病的风险增加，例如焦虑症。青少年焦虑通常被称为网关障碍，因为它对终身持续的心理健康问题具有很高的可预测性。研究表明，临床焦虑的青少年表现出对负性刺激的注意偏向，但这些偏向是否也可以在亚临床焦虑的青少年的亚临床范围内发现，目前尚不清楚。在这项研究中，我们着手调查这个问题相结合的情绪Go-Nogo任务与眼动跟踪技术，以评估注意偏见的情绪面孔在亚临床样本的23个亚临床焦虑的青春期女孩。这种结合的方法使我们能够同时观察行为和内隐注意力偏差。使用传统和贝叶斯假设检验，我们没有发现任何证据表明行为水平或眼动追踪数据中存在对负面威胁相关刺激的偏见。我们认为，这些结果可以帮助缩小目前文献中的差距，因为它们表明，像低焦虑青少年一样，亚临床焦虑青少年在重叠任务中观看去情境化的情感刺激时不会表现出注意力偏差。结合之前在临床焦虑参与者中报告的高水平注意力偏差的研究结果，我们的研究结果似乎表明，注意力偏差不会随着个人焦虑水平的增加而线性增加。未来的研究需要探索其他因素的作用，例如抑郁症。
Recent research suggests that early difficulties with emotion regulation go along with an increased risk for developing psychiatric disorders, such as anxiety disorders for example. Adolescent anxiety is often referred to as a gateway disorder, due to its high predictability for lifelong persistent mental health problems. It has been shown that clinically anxious adolescents exhibit attention biases toward negative stimuli, yet whether these biases can also be found in the subclinical range of subclinically anxious adolescents is currently unclear. In this study, we set out to investigate this question by combining an emotional Go-Nogo task with eye-tracking techniques to assess attention biases for emotional faces in a subclinical sample of 23 subclinically anxious adolescent girls. This combined approach allowed us to look at both, behavioral and covert attention biases. Using both traditional and Bayesian hypothesis testing, we found no evidence for a bias toward negative, threat-relevant stimuli in the behavioral level or eye-tracking data. We believe that the results can help close a gap in the current literature by showing that like low-anxious adolescents, subclinically anxious adolescents do not exhibit attention biases when viewing de-contextualized emotional stimuli in the Overlap task. Together with previous research findings in clinically anxious participants which have reported high levels of attention biases, our results seem to suggest that attention biases do no increase linearly as a function of individual anxiety level. Future research is now needed to explore the contribution of additional factors, such as depression for example.
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作者：
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