Attention bias to negative versus non-negative faces is related to negative affectivity in a transdiagnostic youth sample.

ABSTRACT: This study identified a shared pathophysiological mechanism of pediatric anxiety and irritability. Clinically, anxiety and irritability are common, co-occurring problems, both characterized by high-arousal negative affective states. Behaviorally, anxiety and irritability are associated with aberrant threat processing. To build on these findings, we examined eye-tracking measures of attention bias in relation to the unique and shared features of anxiety and irritability in a transdiagnostic sample of youth (n = 97, 58% female, M_age = 13.03, SD_age = 2.82). We measured attention bias to negative versus non-negative emotional faces during a passive viewing task. We employed bifactor analysis to parse the unique and shared variance of anxiety and irritability symptoms from

SUBMITTER: Harrewijn A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8192477 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jun

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature