Children's Attentional Exploration of Threatening Information as Related to Trust in Maternal Support

Autor/inn/en	Dujardin, Adinda; Bosmans, Guy; De Raedt, Rudi; Braet, Caroline
Titel	Children's Attentional Exploration of Threatening Information as Related to Trust in Maternal Support
Quelle	In: Developmental Psychology, 51 (2015) 10, S.1341-1350 (10 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0012-1649
DOI	10.1037/a0039500
Schlagwörter	Attachment Behavior; Attention; Cognitive Processes; Children; Mothers; Parent Child Relationship; Hypothesis Testing; Preadolescents; Questionnaires; Trust (Psychology); Video Technology; Fear; Pictorial Stimuli; Animals; Foreign Countries; Anxiety; Likert Scales; Belgium; State Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Attachment; Bindungsverhalten; Aufmerksamkeit; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mother; Mutter; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hypothesenprüfung; Hypothesentest; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Fragebogen; Furcht; Fantasieanregung; Animal; Tier; Tiere; Ausland; Angst; Likert-Skala; Belgien
Abstract	There is increasing interest in attachment-related social information processing, including children's attentional processing of information regarding the attachment figure. Previous research in middle childhood revealed evidence for a stronger attentional focus toward mother in children with less secure attachment expectations. However, the implication of this attentional focus for children's exploration has not been explored. This study tested the hypothesis that this attentional focus toward mother occurs at the expense of attentional exploration of the environment. Ninety children, aged 8-12, completed questionnaires assessing trust in maternal support, watched a video that induced mild fear of dogs, and completed a dot probe computer task assessing attentional processing of simultaneously presented pictures of mother and pictures of the threatening stimulus (i.e., dogs). Less trust in maternal support was linked to a stronger attentional focus toward the mother pictures versus the dog pictures. These results suggest that, in the presence of mother, children with more secure attachment expectations are better able to freely explore a mildly threatening environment. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01