Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents

CONCLUSIONS: This is the largest study to date examining eye-tracking metrics of attention to threat among healthy and anxious youth. Findings did not support the notion that anxiety is characterized by heightened vigilance or avoidance/maintenance of attention to threat. All effects detected were extremely small. Links between attention to threat and anxiety among adolescents may be subtle and highly dependent on experimental task dimensions.PMID:33641686 | DOI:10.1017/S0033291720003360

Source: Psychological Medicine - March 1, 2021 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Benjamin C Mullin Jacob B W Holzman Laura Pyle Emmaly L Perks Yaswanth Chintaluru Lauren D Gulley Dustin A Haraden Benjamin L Hankin Source Type: research