Eye-tracking measurement of attention bias to social threat among youth: A replication and extension study.

ABSTRACT: Attentional bias to social threat cues has been linked to heightened anxiety and irritability in youth. Yet, inconsistent methodology has limited replication and led to mixed findings. The current study aims to 1) replicate and extend two previous pediatric studies demonstrating a relationship between negative affectivity and attentional bias to social threat and 2) examine the test-retest reliability of an eye-tracking paradigm among a subsample of youth. Attention allocation to negative versus non-negative emotional faces was measured using a free-viewing eye-tracking task among youth (N=185 total, 60% female, M _age=13.10 years, SD _age=2.77) with three face-pair conditions: happy-angry, neutral-disgust, sad-happy. Replicating procedures of two p

SUBMITTER: Byrne ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11238819 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature