Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely Children

Autor/inn/en	Qualter, Pamela; Rotenberg, Ken; Barrett, Louise; Henzi, Peter; Barlow, Alexandra; Stylianou, Maria; Harris, Rebecca A.
Titel	Investigating Hypervigilance for Social Threat of Lonely Children
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 41 (2013) 2, S.325-338 (14 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-012-9676-x
Schlagwörter	Social Isolation; Rejection (Psychology); Depression (Psychology); Stimuli; Peer Relationship; Psychological Patterns; Children; Eye Movements; Questionnaires; Visual Perception; Age Differences; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Scores + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Soziale Isolation; Ablehnung; Anreizsystem; Peer-Beziehungen; Child; Kind; Kinder; Augenbewegung; Fragebogen; Visuelle Wahrnehmung; Age; Difference; Age difference; Altersunterschied; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	The hypothesis that lonely children show hypervigilance for social threat was examined in a series of three studies that employed different methods including advanced eye-tracking technology. Hypervigilance for social threat was operationalized as hostility to ambiguously motivated social exclusion in a variation of the hostile attribution paradigm (Study 1), scores on the Children's Rejection-Sensitivity Questionnaire (Study 2), and visual attention to socially rejecting stimuli (Study 3). The participants were 185 children (11 years-7 months to 12 years-6 months), 248 children (9 years-4 months to 11 years-8 months) and 140 children (8 years-10 months to 12 years-10 months) in the three studies, respectively. Regression analyses showed that, with depressive symptoms covaried, there were quadratic relations between loneliness and these different measures of hypervigilance to social threat. As hypothesized, only children in the upper range of loneliness demonstrated elevated hostility to ambiguously motivated social exclusion, higher scores on the rejection sensitivity questionnaire, and disengagement difficulties when viewing socially rejecting stimuli. We found that very lonely children are hypersensitive to social threat. (As Provided).
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