Quast Anja, Batschkus Sarah, Brinkmann Jana, Schliephake Henning, Alpers Georg W, Meyer-Marcotty Philipp, Gerdes Antje B M
University Medical Center Göttingen, Göttingen, Germany.
Department of Psychology, University of Mannheim, Mannheim, Germany.
Pediatr Dent. 2022 Mar 15;44(2):108-113.
Adolescence is a delicate phase during life in which self-stigmatization increases and acceptance by peers becomes more important. However, little is known about how adolescents with cleft lip and/or palate experience this stage of life. Therefore, the purpose of this study was to investigate how cleft lip and/or palate (CLP) adolescents are looked at by their peers and how they look at others with/without CLP.
In this prospective, cross-sectional study 54 observers (CLP versus control) performed an eye-tracking task and gave attractiveness/ valence ratings. For this purpose, they were shown pictures of patients with and without CLP with neutral or smiling facial expressions.
Adolescents with CLP were looked at differently compared to their unaffected peers, with shorter fixations of the eyes and longer fixations of the nose and mouth. Smiling altered the scan path toward the mouth for all faces. Contrary to the control group, adolescents with CLP tended to spend less time fixating the eyes. In the attractiveness/valence ratings, CLP adolescents were rated more negatively.
Adolescents with cleft lip and/or palate look differently at peers and are also viewed with an alternate scan path.
青春期是人生中的一个微妙阶段,在此期间自我污名化加剧,同伴接纳变得更为重要。然而,对于唇腭裂青少年如何经历这一人生阶段,我们知之甚少。因此,本研究的目的是调查唇腭裂(CLP)青少年如何看待他们的同伴,以及他们如何看待有/无唇腭裂的其他人。
在这项前瞻性横断面研究中,54名观察者(唇腭裂患者与对照组)执行了一项眼动追踪任务并给出吸引力/效价评分。为此,向他们展示了有或无唇腭裂患者的图片,面部表情为中性或微笑。
与未受影响的同伴相比,唇腭裂青少年被看待的方式有所不同,眼睛注视时间较短,而鼻子和嘴巴的注视时间较长。微笑改变了所有面部朝向嘴巴的扫描路径。与对照组相反,唇腭裂青少年倾向于较少花时间注视眼睛。在吸引力/效价评分中,唇腭裂青少年的评分更负面。
唇腭裂青少年看待同伴的方式不同,并且也以不同的扫描路径被看待。