Improved Reliability of Dot Probe Measures with Response-Based Computation: An Application with Young Violence-Exposed Children.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Anxiety and posttraumatic stress symptoms have been associated with threat-related attention bias assessed in the widely-used dot-probe task. A novel method of scoring attention bias using response-based computation has shown improved reliability over standard computation approaches with adult samples.

Methods

The current study applies this approach using secondary analysis of dot probe data from a sample of preschool-aged children ages 3-7 (n = 280) with varying levels of violence exposure. Attention bias indices were then examined alongside mother-report and observational measures of child anxiety. The standard approach used average reaction times to create a single measure of vigilant or avoidant bias per participant, whereas the response-based computati

SUBMITTER: Loomis AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12781971 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature