Developmental Variation in the Associations of Attention Bias to Emotion with Internalizing and Externalizing Psychopathology.

ABSTRACT: Attention biases to emotion are associated with symptoms of internalizing and externalizing psychopathology in children and adolescents. It is unknown whether attention biases to emotion and their associations with different symptoms of psychopathology vary across development from early childhood through young adulthood. We examine this age-related variation in the current study. Participants (N = 190; ages: 4-25) completed survey-based psychopathology symptom measures and a dot-probe task to assess attention bias to happy, sad, and angry relative to neutral faces. We tested whether linear or non-linear (e.g., spline-based models) associations best characterized age-related variation in attention to emotion. We additionally examined whether attention biases were associated with depression,

SUBMITTER: Jenness JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8102336 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature