Relations of emotion-related temperamental characteristics to attentional biases and social functioning.

ABSTRACT: The current study examined whether an important temperamental characteristic, effortful control (EC), moderates the associations between dispositional anger and sadness, attention biases, and social functioning in a group of preschool-aged children (N = 77). Preschoolers' attentional biases toward angry and sad facial expressions were assessed using eye-tracking, and we obtained teachers' reports of children's temperament and social functioning. Associations of dispositional anger and sadness with time looking at relevant negative emotional stimuli were moderated by children's EC, but relations between time looking at emotional faces and indicators of social functioning, for the most part, were direct and not moderated by EC. In particular, time looking at angry faces (and low EC) predicte

SUBMITTER: Nozadi SS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5989723 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature