ArticleScientific reports2022
Experiences of maltreatment in childhood and attention to facial emotions in healthy young women.
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- Alexithymia as a mediator between adverse childhood events and the development of psychopathology: a meta-analysis.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
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- Attention to facial emotions in adult women varies by type and severity of childhood maltreatment experience and emotion regulation strategy.Scientific reports · 2025Article
- A look at the free-viewing paradigm in eye-tracking research to assess positive attentional bias.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Article
- Common neural correlates of disgust processing in childhood maltreatment and peer victimisation.BJPsych open · 2024Article
- Reduced positive attentional bias in patients with borderline personality disorder compared with non-patients: results from a free-viewing eye-tracking study.Borderline personality disorder and emotion dysregulation · 2024Article
- Factors associated with child abuse among children and adolescents in a Peruvian public hospital.Journal of medicine and life · 2023Article
- Attentional bias for sad facial expressions in adults with a history of peer victimization.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Article
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Abstract
Using reaction-time measures, research on the relationship between childhood maltreatment and biased attention to emotional stimuli in adults has obtained inconsistent results. To help clarify this issue, we conducted an eye-tracking study on the link between childhood maltreatment and allocation of attention to facial emotions analyzing gaze behavior in addition to manual reactions. In contrast to prior investigations, we excluded individuals with tendencies to minimize maltreatment experiences from analyses. Gaze behavior and manual response time of 58 healthy women were examined in a dot-probe task in which pairs of emotional (happy, sad, or disgusted) and neutral faces were presented. In our analyses, participants' affectivity, level of alexithymia, and intelligence were controlled. Entry time and dwell time on facial expressions were used as indicators of attention allocation. Childhood maltreatment showed no effect on response latencies but was associated with shorter entry times on emotional faces and shorter dwell time on disgusted faces. Experiences of childhood maltreatment seem to be linked to an increased early vigilance to emotional social signals and to an attentional avoidance of hostile facial expressions at a later stage of perception. The present results suggest a vigilance-avoidance pattern of attention allocation associated with childhood maltreatment.
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