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dc.contributor.authorWaters, Allison M
dc.contributor.authorForrest, Kylee
dc.contributor.authorPeters, Rosie-Mae
dc.contributor.authorBradley, Brendan P
dc.contributor.authorMogg, Karin
dc.date.accessioned2017-11-30T04:16:58Z
dc.date.available2017-11-30T04:16:58Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.issn0005-7916
dc.identifier.doi10.1016/j.jbtep.2014.10.002
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10072/124941
dc.description.abstractBackground and objectives Children of parents with emotional disorders have an increased risk for developing anxiety and depressive disorders. Yet the mechanisms that contribute to this increased risk are poorly understood. The present study aimed to examine attention biases in children as a function of maternal lifetime emotional disorders and maternal attention biases. Methods There were 134 participants, including 38 high-risk children, and their mothers who had lifetime emotional disorders; and 29 low-risk children, and their mothers without lifetime emotional disorders. Mothers and children completed a visual probe task with emotional face pairs presented for 500 ms. Results Attention bias in children did not significantly differ solely as a function of whether or not their mothers had lifetime emotional disorders. However, attention bias in high-risk children was significantly related to their mothers' attention bias. Specifically, children of mothers with lifetime emotional disorders showed a greater negative attention bias if their mothers had a greater tendency to direct attention away from positive information. Limitations This study was cross-sectional in nature, and therefore unable to assess long-term predictive effects. Also, just one exposure duration of 500 ms was utilised. Conclusion Attention bias for negative information is greater in offspring of mothers who have lifetime emotional disorders and a reduced positive bias, which could be a risk marker for the development of emotional disorders in children.
dc.description.peerreviewedYes
dc.languageEnglish
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherElsevier
dc.relation.ispartofpagefrom158
dc.relation.ispartofpageto163
dc.relation.ispartofjournalJournal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry
dc.relation.ispartofvolume46
dc.subject.fieldofresearchCognitive and computational psychology
dc.subject.fieldofresearchcode5204
dc.titleAttention bias to emotional information in children as a function of maternal emotional disorders and maternal attention biases
dc.typeJournal article
dc.type.descriptionC1 - Articles
dc.type.codeC - Journal Articles
gro.facultyGriffith Health, School of Applied Psychology
gro.hasfulltextNo Full Text
gro.griffith.authorWaters, Allison M.


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