David Oana A, Magurean Silvia
DATA Lab, The International Institute for the Advanced Studies of Psychotherapy and Applied Mental Health, Babeş-Bolyai University, 400015 Cluj-Napoca, Romania.
Children (Basel). 2022 Oct 22;9(11):1600. doi: 10.3390/children9111600.
Attentional bias towards positive stimuli is considered a resilience factor for mental health and well-being. The aim of the present study was to analyze the effects of an attentional bias training for positive faces in a preventive therapeutic game for children and adolescents. The sample of 54, which consisted of children and adolescents aged between 10-16 years, played the REThink game, which included an attentional bias training level based on the visual search paradigm, where children had the task to quickly find the happy face among other angry faces. We measured mental health, and positive and negative emotions and analyzed their associations between changes in attention bias. Attentional bias indicators demonstrated acceptable reliability and results showed that increases in attentional bias towards positive faces were associated with improvements in children and adolescents' conduct problems, hyperactivity, and peer relationship problems. Overall, our results support the protective role of training attentional bias towards positive faces as part of a preventive therapeutic game for children and adolescents.
对积极刺激的注意偏向被认为是心理健康和幸福的一个复原力因素。本研究的目的是分析在一款针对儿童和青少年的预防性治疗游戏中，对积极面孔进行注意偏向训练的效果。由10至16岁儿童和青少年组成的54名样本参与了“重新思考”游戏，该游戏包括一个基于视觉搜索范式的注意偏向训练级别，在这个级别中，儿童的任务是在其他愤怒面孔中快速找到开心面孔。我们测量了心理健康以及积极和消极情绪，并分析了它们与注意偏向变化之间的关联。注意偏向指标显示出可接受的可靠性，结果表明，对积极面孔的注意偏向增加与儿童和青少年的行为问题、多动及同伴关系问题的改善相关。总体而言，我们的结果支持了将对积极面孔的注意偏向训练作为儿童和青少年预防性治疗游戏一部分的保护作用。
