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lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-6-9
pubmed:abstractText
This study reports on the relationship between evaluative learning (EL) and attentional preference in children with varying degrees of anxiety, as measured by the Multidimensional Anxiety Scale for Children, and varying degrees of parental anxiety, as measured by scores on the Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI). In the first experiment, 3 age groups (7-8, 10-11 and adults with mean age 26.8 years) were compared on a novel EL method, in which neutral images "morphed" over 1s into either smiling or angry adult faces. There were no differences in EL between the age groups-each showing a strong EL effect. In 2 subsequent experiments, we examined learning and attention to stimuli following EL trials in 7- to 8-year olds. In Experiment 2, panic/separation anxiety (PSA) and the mothers' BAI predicted the overall magnitude of EL. In addition, high PSA children were more likely to attend to a neutral stimulus previously paired with a negative stimulus than were low PSA children. In Experiment 3, only PSA was positively associated with the magnitude of EL. In the attention trials, high PSA children had longer fixation times on frowning faces than did low PSA children but unlike Experiment 2 PSA was not associated with preferential attention towards stimuli with acquired negative valence. These results indicate that associations between learning, attention and emotional information can be influenced by separation anxiety and maternal anxiety.
pubmed:grant
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Sep
pubmed:issn
0005-7916
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
39
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
321-39
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Adult, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Age Factors, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Anxiety, Separation, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Anxiety Disorders, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Arousal, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Attention, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Child, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Child of Impaired Parents, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Cues, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Emotions, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Facial Expression, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Fear, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Female, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Humans, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Learning, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Male, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Mothers, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Panic Disorder, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Pattern Recognition, Visual, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Personality Inventory, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Reaction Time, pubmed-meshheading:17884011-Visual Perception
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Rapid acquisition of emotional information and attentional bias in anxious children.
pubmed:affiliation
School of Psychology, University of the West of England, Bristol, BS16 1QY, UK. Eamon.fulcher@uwe.ac.uk
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Comparative Study, Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't