Attention biases and social-emotional development in preschool-aged children who have been exposed to domestic violence

Mastorakos, Tessie; Scott, Katreena

doi:10.1016/j.chiabu.2019.01.001

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“…Previous studies on attention biases associated with childhood adversity reported mixed results. For example, in children with early maltreatment experience, an attention bias away from negative facial expressions was observed (Pine et al 2005 ), in particular from sad faces (Mastorakos and Scott 2019 ). In contrast, another study reported an attention bias towards sad facial stimuli in maltreated children when sad mood was induced (Romens and Pollak 2012 ).…”

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Childhood adversity and approach/avoidance-related behaviour in boys

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Childhood adversity has been suggested to affect the vulnerability for developmental psychopathology, including both externalizing and internalizing symptoms. This study examines spontaneous attention biases for negative and positive emotional facial expressions as potential intermediate phenotypes. In detail, typically developing boys (6–13 years) underwent an eye-tracking paradigm displaying happy, angry, sad and fearful faces. An approach bias towards positive emotional facial expressions with increasing childhood adversity levels was found. In addition, an attention bias away from negative facial expressions was observed with increasing childhood adversity levels, especially for sad facial expressions. The results might be interpreted in terms of emotional regulation strategies in boys at risk for reactive aggression and depressive behaviour.

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“…Both tendencies—the approach-related behaviour and the avoidance-related behaviour—suggest emotional regulation capabilities in children experiencing adverse circumstances (e.g. Mastorakos and Scott 2019 ).…”

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“…However, few studies directly assessed the impact of biased attention on interpersonal relationships. There is some evidence that attentional avoidance of generic fearful, sad and neutral facial expressions mediates the relation between early life stressors and social problems later on (Humphreys et al, 2016;Mastorakos and Scott, 2019). We have reported that the inhibition of personally relevant angry faces was found to moderate the relation between empathy and interpersonal functioning, so that persons with high empathy, but difficulties inhibiting highly relevant and salient stimuli, exhibited poor interpersonal functioning (Iacono et al, 2015).…”

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Predicting Interpersonal Outcomes From Information Processing Tasks Using Personally Relevant and Generic Stimuli: A Methodology Study

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Despite evidence of differential processing of personally relevant stimuli (PR), most studies investigating attentional biases in processing emotional content use generic stimuli. We sought to examine differences in the processing of PR, relative to generic, stimuli across information processing tasks and to validate their use in predicting concurrent interpersonal functioning. Fifty participants (25 female) viewed generic and PR (i.e., their intimate partner's face) emotional stimuli during tasks assessing selective attention (using a modified version of the Spatial Cueing Task) and inhibition (using the Negative Affective Priming task) of emotional content. Ratings of relationship quality were also collected. Evidence of increased selective attention during controlled and greater avoidance during automatic stages of processing emerged when viewing PR, relative to generic, emotional faces. We also found greater inhibition of PR sad faces. Finally, male, but not female, participants who displayed greater difficulty disengaging from the sad face of their partner reported more conflict in their relationships. Taken together, findings from information processing studies using generic emotional stimuli may not be representative of how we process PR stimuli in naturalistic settings.

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“…Young children with a history of DV-exposure, compared to those without, showed equal attention to the non-face stimulus they were assigned to find (i.e., a cartoon hippo); however, they had a significantly and substantially lower duration of fixation on sad and neutral faces. Anger and happiness were the emotions for which DV-exposed children's fixations were equivalent to those of non -exposed children (Mastorakos and Scott 2019). Domestic violence can be classified according to the actions into three types as follows.…”

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The Effectiveness of Treatment and Recovery of Domestic Violence Victims on Semarang Regency

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2020

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Housekeeping is the smallest community of a society. Household a happy, safe, and secure into everyone's dream. Wholeness and harmony of a household can be impaired if the attitude, behavior, and self-control can not be controlled. Ultimately can occur domestic violence causing insecurity or injustice against people who are within the scope of the household. From the result of the violence, the victim should be restored to rise physical and psychological conditions. Inhibiting factors is a recovery of victims of domestic violence is that most of the victims do not want to restore condition, efforts to resolve it provides socialization, convincing victims of domestic violence to want to restore, to supervise the victims have been recovered. Supporting factors is the facility is being used in the recovery process is adequate, the victim does not charge at all during the recovery process. In conclusion, the service process and the recovery of victims of domestic violence conducted by the relevant institutions have been equally effective and in accordance with the legislation in force. Saran, We suggest to set up a special team to handle the implementation of the recovery of victims of domestic violence.

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Attention biases and social-emotional development in preschool-aged children who have been exposed to domestic violence

Cited by 23 publications

References 46 publications

Childhood adversity and approach/avoidance-related behaviour in boys

Childhood adversity and approach/avoidance-related behaviour in boys

Predicting Interpersonal Outcomes From Information Processing Tasks Using Personally Relevant and Generic Stimuli: A Methodology Study

The Effectiveness of Treatment and Recovery of Domestic Violence Victims on Semarang Regency

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