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Frontiers in Psychology
Age-related changes in attentional control across adolescence: how does this impact emotion regulation capacities?
Kathrin Cohen Kadosh1 
关键词: adolescence;    anxiety;    attention;    cognitive development;    face processing;    emotional expressions;    emotion regulation;   
DOI  :  10.3389/fpsyg.2014.00111
学科分类:心理学(综合)
来源: Frontiers
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【 摘 要 】

This study set out to establish the novel use of the go/no-go Overlap task for investigating the role of attentional control capacities in the processing of emotional expressions across different age-groups within adolescence: at the onset of adolescence (11–12 year-olds) and toward the end of adolescence (17–18 year-olds). We also looked at how attentional control in the processing of fearful, happy, and neutral expressions relates to individual differences in trait anxiety in these adolescent groups. We were able to show that younger adolescents, but not older adolescents had more difficulties with attention control in the presence of all faces, but particularly in the presence of fearful faces. Moreover, we found that across all groups, adolescents with higher trait anxiety exhibited attentional avoidance of all faces, which facilitated relatively better performance on the primary task. These differences in reaction time emerged in the context of comparable accuracy level in the primary task across age-groups. Our results contribute to our understanding of how attentional control abilities to faces but in particular fearful expressions may mature across adolescence. This may affect learning about the environment and the acquisition of behavioral response patterns in the social world.

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