TY  - JOUR
AB  - Background: Distorted cognitive processing has been found among survivors
of child maltreatment. However, different types of abuse and neglect may bring
about differences in emotion and attention processing. The present study aimed to
detect differential associations between various types of childhood maltreatment and
attentional biases in facial emotion processing.
Methods: A non-clinical sample was recruited on University campus and consisted of
67 individuals with varying degrees of maltreatment. In an evaluative conditioning task,
images of faces with neutral emotional expressions were either associated with short
videos of intense negative statements, or associated with neutral videos. Subsequently,
these faces were used as stimuli in a face in the crowd recognition task in which the
familiar faces had to be recognized within a crowd of unfamiliar neutral faces.
Results: In multiple linear regression analyses controlling for the intercorrelatedness
of types of maltreatment, differential relationships between types of maltreatment and
attentional bias were found. While emotional abuse was associated with faster detection
of negatively associated faces, emotional neglect was associated with an impaired
recognition of familiar stimuli regardless of the emotional content.
Conclusion: Results indicated that interindividual differences in cognitive biases may
be due to the activation of diverse cognitive schemas based on differential experiences
of maltreatment.
DA  - 2020
DO  - 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00732
KW  - child maltreatment
KW  - attentional bias
KW  - face in the crowd effect
KW  - emotion recognition
KW  - visual search
LA  - eng
PY  - 2020
T2  - Frontiers in Psychology
TI  - Varying Cognitive Scars – Differential Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and Facial Emotion Processing
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:0070-pub-29428249
Y2  - 2024-11-22T01:36:01
ER  -