Attentional bias for emotional faces in children with generalized anxiety disorder. Export

@article{citeulike:3486127, abstract = {OBJECTIVE: To examine attentional bias for angry and happy faces in 7- to 12-year-old children with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD; n = 23) and nonanxious controls (n = 25). METHOD: Children completed a visual probe task in which pairs of face stimuli were displayed for 500 milliseconds and were replaced by a visual probe in the spatial location of one of the faces. RESULTS: Severely anxious children with GAD showed an attentional bias toward both angry and happy faces. Children with GAD with a milder level of anxiety and nonanxious controls did not show an attentional bias toward emotional faces. Moreover, within the GAD group, attentional bias for angry faces was associated with increased anxiety severity and the presence of social phobia. CONCLUSIONS: Biased attention toward threat as a function of increased severity in pediatric GAD may reflect differing threat appraisal processes or emotion regulation strategies.}, author = {Waters, A. M. and Mogg, K. and Bradley, B. P. and Pine, D. S.}, citeulike-article-id = {3486127}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181642992}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://view.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18388762}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://www.hubmed.org/display.cgi?uids=18388762}, doi = {10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181642992}, issn = {1527-5418}, journal = {Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry}, keywords = {anxiety, emotion, expression, negative-bias}, month = {April}, number = {4}, pages = {435--442}, posted-at = {2008-11-07 02:05:32}, priority = {2}, title = {Attentional bias for emotional faces in children with generalized anxiety disorder.}, url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181642992}, volume = {47}, year = {2008} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:3486127 L3 - citeulike-article-id:3486127 N2 - OBJECTIVE: To examine attentional bias for angry and happy faces in 7- to 12-year-old children with generalized anxiety disorder (GAD; n = 23) and nonanxious controls (n = 25). METHOD: Children completed a visual probe task in which pairs of face stimuli were displayed for 500 milliseconds and were replaced by a visual probe in the spatial location of one of the faces. RESULTS: Severely anxious children with GAD showed an attentional bias toward both angry and happy faces. Children with GAD with a milder level of anxiety and nonanxious controls did not show an attentional bias toward emotional faces. Moreover, within the GAD group, attentional bias for angry faces was associated with increased anxiety severity and the presence of social phobia. CONCLUSIONS: Biased attention toward threat as a function of increased severity in pediatric GAD may reflect differing threat appraisal processes or emotion regulation strategies. IS - 4 JF - Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry SN - 1527-5418 EP - 442 TI - Attentional bias for emotional faces in children with generalized anxiety disorder. VL - 47 SP - 435 KW - anxiety KW - emotion KW - expression KW - negative-bias AU - Waters, AM AU - Mogg, K AU - Bradley, BP AU - Pine, DS PY - 2008/04// UR - http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/CHI.0b013e3181642992 ER -