Intimate Partner Violence Exposure and Childhood Psychopathology: Associations with Discriminating Fearful and Angry Faces in Young Children.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Childhood exposure to traumatic violence may shape how children respond to threatening faces and increase risk for psychopathology. Maltreated children may exhibit altered processing of threatening faces; however, the effects of witnessing intimate partner violence (IPV) on children's discrimination of facial expressions is under-studied. Emotional face processing differentially relates to psychopathology, with some evidence suggesting improved detection of angry faces in children with fear-related anxiety symptoms, whereas externalizing symptoms are associated with poorer detection of fearful faces and perhaps emotional faces broadly.

Method

In this cross-sectional study, we examined discrimination of threatening emotional faces (angry, fearful) in relation to exper

SUBMITTER: Goldstein BL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9634668 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature