ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2022
An Eye-Tracking Study of Attention Biases in Children at High Familial Risk for Depression and Their Parents with Depression.
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- Food and body-related attentional biases in children and adolescents with eating disorder symptoms, overweight and obesity: a systematic review.Journal of eating disorders · 2025Review
- Young Children of Mothers with a History of Depression Show Attention Bias to Sad Faces: An Eye-tracking Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Maternal Trauma and Psychopathology Symptoms Affect Refugee Children's Mental Health But Not Their Emotion Processing.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Bonobos and chimpanzees remember familiar conspecifics for decades.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2023Article
- Attention Biases for Eating Disorder-Related Stimuli Versus Social Stimuli in Adolescents with Anorexia Nervosa - An Eye-Tracking Study.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- Biased Maintenance of Attention on Sad Faces in Clinically Depressed Youth: An Eye-Tracking Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- The KOALA-study: study protocol for a comprehensive study of cognitive biases in adolescent anorexia nervosa patients compared to healthy and clinical controls.Journal of eating disorders · 2021Article
- Emotion Regulation as a Mediator in the Relationship Between Cognitive Biases and Depressive Symptoms in Depressed, At-risk and Healthy Children and Adolescents.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2021Article
- "I Am a Total…Loser" - The Role of Interpretation Biases in Youth Depression.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
Attention biases (AB) are a core component of cognitive models of depression yet it is unclear what role they play in the transgenerational transmission of depression. 44 children (9-14 years) with a high familial risk of depression (HR) were compared on multiple measures of AB with 36 children with a low familial risk of depression (LR). Their parents: 44 adults with a history of depression (HD) and 36 adults with no history of psychiatric disorder (ND) were also compared. There was no evidence of group differences in AB; neither between the HR and LR children, nor between HD and ND parents. There was no evidence of a correlation between parent and child AB. The internal consistency of the tasks varied greatly. The Dot-Probe Task showed unacceptable reliability whereas the behavioral index of the Visual-Search Task and an eye-tracking index of the Passive-Viewing Task showed better reliability. There was little correlation between the AB tasks and the tasks showed minimal convergence with symptoms of depression or anxiety. The null-findings of the current study contradict our expectations and much of the previous literature. They may be due to the poor psychometric properties associated with some of the AB indices, the unreliability of AB in general, or the relatively modest sample size. The poor reliability of the tasks in our sample suggest caution should be taken when interpreting the positive findings of previous studies which have used similar methods and populations.
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