Childhood emotional maltreatment, anxiety, attachment, and mindfulness: Associations with facial emotion recognition
| Autor: | Heidi N. Bailey, Lianne H. English, Melanie Wisener |
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| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Mindfulness Adolescent Emotions Poison control Suicide prevention Young Adult 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Injury prevention Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Child Abuse Child Students 05 social sciences Human factors and ergonomics Fear Anxiety Disorders Object Attachment Facial Expression Psychiatry and Mental health Pediatrics Perinatology and Child Health Anxiety Female Self Report Identification (psychology) medicine.symptom Psychology 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Cognitive load 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Child Abuse & Neglect. 80:146-160 |
| ISSN: | 0145-2134 |
| Popis: | The current study investigated factors thought to contribute to facial emotion processing. Female university students (N = 126) completed self-report measures of childhood emotional maltreatment, anxiety symptoms, attachment anxiety and avoidance, and trait mindfulness before completing a facial emotion recognition task, where they viewed sequences of faces that incorporated progressively more emotional content until they were able to correctly identify the emotion. They completed the task under low and high cognitive load conditions to distinguish between relatively effortful versus automatic processing abilities. Regression analyses revealed that under low cognitive load, attachment avoidance and mindfulness predicted quicker identification of fear (i.e., with less perceptual information), whereas anxiety predicted slower identification of fear (i.e., with more perceptual information). In the high cognitive load condition, emotional maltreatment and mindfulness predicted quicker identification of fear, and anxiety and mindfulness predicted faster identification of emotions overall. Although current findings are correlational, most of these effects were specific to fearful faces, suggesting that experiences of childhood emotional maltreatment and associated socio-emotional sequelae are related to heightened processing of threat-related information. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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