Are Socially Relevant Scenes Abnormally Processed in Complex Trauma-Exposed Children?

Fecha de publicación: 01/12/2023 Fecha Ahead of Print: 18/05/2023

Autores de IIS La Fe

Participantes ajenos a IIS La Fe

Ferrín M

Grupos

Investigación en Salud Mental

Leader

Ana Cristina García Blanco

Abstract

Abnormal attentional processes to socially relevant information may underlie behavioral dysfunctional symptoms in children exposed to a complex trauma. Attentional biases to social scenes close to real-world situations and their association with behavioral symptomatology were examined in complex trauma-exposed children. A visual dot-probe task involving neutral versus emotional (i.e., threatening, sad, or happy) scenes was applied to twenty-one maltreated children (mean age 10.43; 42.8% female; 61.1% White). These children were exposed to a complex trauma (i.e., severe, repeated, multiple, prolonged, and interpersonal) and were safeguarded in a juvenile welfare home after all parental responsibility was removed. Twenty-four comparable non-maltreated children (mean age 10.13; 29.2% female; 76% White), served as control group. All participants were at risk of social exclusion and every legal representative completed the Child Behavior Checklist (CBCL). Complex trauma-exposed children showed an attentional bias toward threatening scenes, while the control group showed an attentional bias toward sad scenes. There were no differences for happy scenes between groups. Attentional bias toward threatening scenes was associated with withdrawn symptoms in complex trauma-exposed children. Children exposed to a complex trauma show an abnormal attention to threatening social situations, which can trigger maladaptive behaviors such as withdrawn. The understanding of how complex trauma-exposed children process affective environmental information may provide new targets in the social skills interventions such as diminishing maladaptive behaviors and improving coping strategies to face threatening situations.

Datos de la publicación

ISSN/ISSNe:: 1936-1521, 1936-153X
Tipo:: Article
Páginas:: 1031-1040
DOI:: 10.1007/s40653-023-00549-7
Factor de Impacto:: 0,601 SCImago ℠
Cuartil:: Q2 SCImago ℠

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Bertó C:: Department of Psychiatry and Psychology, Hospital Francesc de Borja, Gandía, Spain
Almansa-Tomás B:: Instituto de Investigación. Neonatal Research Unit, Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain. GRID: grid.84393.35. ISNI: 0000 0001 0360 9602
Ferrín M:: University of Southampton, Southampton, UK. ROR: https://ror.org/01ryk1543. GRID: grid.5491.9. ISNI: 0000 0004 1936 9297

ReCognition Health, London, UK. GRID: grid.521027.3
Livianos L:: Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain. GRID: grid.84393.35. ISNI: 0000 0001 0360 9602

Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. ROR: https://ror.org/043nxc105. GRID: grid.5338.d. ISNI: 0000 0001 2173 938X
Rojo L:: Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain. GRID: grid.84393.35. ISNI: 0000 0001 0360 9602

Department of Medicine, University of Valencia, Valencia, Spain. ROR: https://ror.org/043nxc105. GRID: grid.5338.d. ISNI: 0000 0001 2173 938X
Barberá M:: Department of Psychiatry and Clinical Psychology, University and Polytechnic Hospital La Fe, Valencia, Spain. GRID: grid.84393.35. ISNI: 0000 0001 0360 9602
García-Blanco A:: Instituto de Investigación. Neonatal Research Unit, Health Research Institute La Fe, Valencia, Spain. GRID: grid.84393.35. ISNI: 0000 0001 0360 9602

Department of Personality, Evaluation, and Psychological Treatment, University of Valencia, Av. Blasco Ibáñez, 21, 46010 Valencia, Spain. ROR: https://ror.org/043nxc105. GRID: grid.5338.d. ISNI: 0000 0001 2173 938X

Keywords

Attentional bias; Childhood; Complex trauma; Emotion; Maltreatment

Proyectos asociados

EFECTOS DE LA MONOTERAPIA CON LITIO EN EL FUNCIONAMIENTO NEUROPSICOLOGICO DE LOS PACIENTES CON TRASTORNO BIPOLAR

Investigador Principal: LORENZO LIVIANOS ALDANA

SM I 22/2011 . 2012

CON-CIENCIA-YV: PILDORAS DE SALUD

FCT-13-7457_FECYT_2013 . MINISTERIO DE ECONOMIA Y COMPETITIVIDAD; FUNDACIÓN PARA LA INVESTIGACIÓN DEL HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO LA FE DE LA COMUNIDAD VALENCIANA . 2013