Patterns of attention to threat across tasks in behaviorally inhibited children at risk for anxiety.

ABSTRACT: Although attention bias towards threat has been causally implicated in the development and maintenance of fear and anxiety, the expected associations do not appear consistently. Reliance on a single task to capture attention bias, in this case overwhelmingly the dot-probe task, may contribute to this inconsistency. Comparing across attentional bias measures could help capture patterns of behavior that have implications for anxiety. This study examines the patterns of attentional bias across two related measures in a sample of children at temperamental risk for anxiety. Children (Mean_age = 10.19 ± 0.96) characterized as behaviorally inhibited (N = 50) or non-inhibited (N = 64) via parent-report completed the dot-probe and affective Posner tasks to measure attentional bias to thre

SUBMITTER: Morales S 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4955713 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature