Visual Attention to Dynamic Scenes of Ambiguous Provocation and Children’s Aggressive Behavior
| Autor: | Kari Jeanne Visconti, Laura Vogel-Ciernia, Wendy Troop-Gordon, Elizabeth Ewing Lee, Robert D. Gordon |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
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Adolescent media_common.quotation_subject education Poison control 050109 social psychology Hostility Empathy Fixation Ocular Peer Group Article Developmental psychology Random Allocation Interpersonal relationship Surveys and Questionnaires Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans Attention Interpersonal Relations 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Longitudinal Studies Child media_common Aggression 05 social sciences Peer group Social cue Clinical Psychology Prosocial behavior Female Cues medicine.symptom Psychology Social Adjustment Social psychology Photic Stimulation 050104 developmental & child psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology. 47:925-940 |
| ISSN: | 1537-4424 1537-4416 |
| Popis: | OBJECTIVE: Research on biases in attention related to children’s aggression has yielded mixed results. Some research suggests that inattention to social cues and reliance on maladaptive social schemas underlie aggression. Other research suggests that maladaptive social schemas lead aggressive individuals to attend to non-hostile cues. The primary objective of this study was to test the proposition that aggression is related todelayed attention to cuesfollowed by selective attention to non-hostile cues after the provocation has occurred. A second objective was to test whether these biases are associated with aggression only when children hold negative social schemas. METHOD: The eye fixations of seventy children (34 boys; 36 girls; M(age) =11.71 years) were monitored with an eye tracker as they watched video clips of child actors portraying scenes of ambiguous provocation. Aggression was measured using peer-, teacher-, and parent-reports, and children completed a measure of antisocial and prosocial peer beliefs. RESULTS: Aggressive behavior was associated withgreater time until fixation on the provocateur among youth who held antisocial peer beliefs. Aggression was also associated with greater time until fixation onan actor displaying empathy for the victim among children reporting low levels of prosocial peer beliefs. After the provocation, aggression was associated with suppressed attention to an amused peer among children who held negative peer beliefs. CONCLUSIONS: Increasing attention to cues in a scene of ambiguous provocation, in conjunction with fostering more positive beliefs about peers, may be effective in reducing hostile responding among aggressive youth. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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