Does accessibility of positive and negative schema vary by child physical abuse risk?
Does accessibility of positive and negative schema vary by child physical abuse risk?
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积极和消极图式的可及性是否因儿童身体虐待风险而异?
DOI:
10.1016/j.chiabu.2010.05.005
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发表时间:
2010
影响因子:
4.8
通讯作者:
Irwin,LaurenM
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作者:
Crouch,JulieL;Risser,HeatherJ;Skowronski,JohnJ;Milner,JoelS;Farc,MagdalenaM;Irwin,LaurenM
OBJECTIVETo examine differences in accessibility of positive and negative schema in parents with high and low risk for child physical abuse (CPA).METHODSThis study combined picture priming and lexical decision making methods to assess the accessibility of positive and negative words following presentation of child and adult faces. The child and adult faces depicted positive, ambiguous, and negative affective valences. The sample included 67 (51 low and 16 high CPA risk) general population parents.RESULTSCPA risk status was associated with accessibility of positive/negative words only following priming with faces of the opposite affective valence. More specifically, high CPA risk parents were slower to respond to positive (negative) words following priming with negative (positive) faces. Exploratory analyses indicated that this pattern of findings was more clearly apparent when picture primes involved adult faces.CONCLUSIONThe present findings suggest that high and low CPA risk parents differ in how they process affectively incongruent information. Research is needed to further examine schema accessibility, as well as to examine whether processes involved in attention and affect integration play a role in CPA risk.