Using mobile eye-tracking technology to examine adolescent daughters' attention to maternal affect during a conflict discussion.

ABSTRACT: Attention to socio-emotional stimuli (i.e., affect-biased attention) is an integral component of emotion regulation and human communication. Given the strong link between maternal affect and adolescent behavior, maternal affect may be a critical influence on adolescent affect-biased attention during mother-child interaction. However, prior methodological constraints have precluded fine-grained examinations of factors such as maternal affect on adolescent attention during real-world social interaction. Therefore, this pilot study capitalized on previously validated technological advances by using mobile eye-tracking and facial affect coding software to quantify the influence of maternal affect on adolescents' attention to the mother during a conflict discussion. Results from 7,500 to 9,000

SUBMITTER: Woody ML 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7885127 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature