Pollak Seth D, Tolley-Schell Stephanie A
Department of Psychology, University of Wisconsin-Madison, 53706-1696, USA.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2003 Aug;112(3):323-38. doi: 10.1037/0021-843x.112.3.323.
The ability to allocate attention to emotional cues in the environment is an important feature of adaptive self-regulation. Existing data suggest that physically abused children overattend to angry expressions, but the attentional mechanisms underlying such behavior are unknown. The authors tested 8-11-year-old physically abused children to determine whether they displayed specific information-processing problems in a selective attention paradigm using emotional faces as cues. Physically abused children demonstrated delayed disengagement when angry faces served as invalid cues. Abused children also demonstrated increased attentional benefits on valid angry trials. Results are discussed in terms of the influence of early adverse experience on children's selective attention to threat-related signals as a mechanism in the development of psychopathology.
将注意力分配到环境中的情绪线索上的能力是适应性自我调节的一个重要特征。现有数据表明，受身体虐待的儿童过度关注愤怒表情，但这种行为背后的注意力机制尚不清楚。作者对8至11岁受身体虐待的儿童进行了测试，以确定他们在使用情绪面孔作为线索的选择性注意范式中是否表现出特定的信息处理问题。当愤怒面孔作为无效线索时，受身体虐待的儿童表现出脱离注意的延迟。受虐待儿童在有效的愤怒试验中也表现出更大的注意力益处。从早期不良经历对儿童对威胁相关信号的选择性注意的影响方面讨论了结果，这是心理病理学发展中的一种机制。
