Children's Attentional Biases to Emotions as Sources of Variability in Their Vulnerability to Interparental Conflict

Autor/inn/en	Davies, Patrick T.; Thompson, Morgan J.; Hentges, Rochelle F.; Coe, Jesse L.; Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.
Titel	Children's Attentional Biases to Emotions as Sources of Variability in Their Vulnerability to Interparental Conflict
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 56 (2020) 7, S.1343-1359 (17 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Davies, Patrick T.) ORCID (Thompson, Morgan J.) ORCID (Hentges, Rochelle F.) ORCID (Coe, Jesse L.) ORCID (Sturge-Apple, Melissa L.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/dev0000994
Schlagwörter	Preschool Children; Attention; Bias; Psychological Patterns; Emotional Response; Parents; Interpersonal Relationship; Stress Variables; Security (Psychology); Psychopathology; Family Environment + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Pre-school age; Preschool age; Child; Children; Pre-school education; Preschool education; Vorschulalter; Kind; Kinder; Vorschulkind; Vorschulkinder; Vorschulerziehung; Vorschule; Aufmerksamkeit; Emotionales Verhalten; Eltern; Interpersonal relation; Interpersonal relations; Interpersonelle Beziehung; Zwischenmenschliche Beziehung; Security; Psychology; Sicherheit; Psychopathologie; Familienmilieu
Abstract	Little is known about the role children's processing of emotions plays in altering children's vulnerability to interparental conflict. To address this gap, the present study examined whether the mediational cascade involving children's exposure to interparental conflict, their insecure responses to interparental conflict, and their psychological problems varied as a function of children's preexisting biases to attend to angry, fearful, sad, and happy expressions. Participants included 243 children (M age = 4.60 years) and their parents assessed at 3 annual measurement occasions. Moderated-mediation analyses within a cross-lagged autoregressive design indicated that the indirect paths among interparental conflict, emotional insecurity, and psychological problems were significant for children who exhibited greater attentional biases toward angry and fearful emotions. Greater attention to anger and fear specifically moderated the first link in the mediational path. Interparental conflict was a significantly stronger predictor of emotional insecurity for children who attended to angry and fearful cues longer. Consistent with environmental sensitivity theories, children with attentional biases to angry and fearful emotions exhibited disproportionately higher levels of emotional insecurity following exposure to heightened interparental conflict but also lower levels of emotional insecurity after experiencing minimal interparental conflict. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01