Manassis K, Tannock R, Masellis M
Department of Psychiatry, Hospital for Sick Children, Toronto, Canada.
Anxiety. 1996;2(6):279-85.
To compare the performance of children with anxiety disorders with that of children with attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and normal controls in the processing of emotional information. A total of 57 children ages 8 to 11 years (18 anxious, 20 ADHD, 19 normal control) were administered a dichotic listening task for the detection of words and emotions. Comparisons of overall performance, false alarms, and a sensitivity index (which took false alarms into account) were done using repeated measures analyses of variance. Anxious children made fewer false alarms for emotion targets compared to both ADHD children and normal controls, and fewer false alarms for words compared to normal controls. When controlling for false alarms, their performance exceeded that of both ADHD children and normal controls. There were no group differences in correct responses. Performance on a dichotic listening task differentiates anxious, ADHD, and normal children, particularly when listening for emotional targets. Further studies using this task may therefore elucidate differences in the processing of words and emotions between these three groups of children.
比较患有焦虑症的儿童与患有注意力缺陷多动障碍（ADHD）的儿童以及正常对照组儿童在处理情绪信息方面的表现。共有57名8至11岁的儿童（18名焦虑症儿童、20名ADHD儿童、19名正常对照组儿童）接受了一项用于检测单词和情绪的双耳分听任务。使用重复测量方差分析对总体表现、误报率和一个考虑了误报率的敏感性指数进行比较。与ADHD儿童和正常对照组相比，焦虑症儿童对情绪目标的误报更少，与正常对照组相比，对单词的误报也更少。在控制误报率后，他们的表现超过了ADHD儿童和正常对照组。正确反应方面没有组间差异。双耳分听任务的表现能够区分焦虑症儿童、ADHD儿童和正常儿童，尤其是在听情绪目标时。因此，使用该任务的进一步研究可能会阐明这三组儿童在处理单词和情绪方面的差异。
