War-related trauma linked to increased sustained attention to threat in children
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| Type | Article |
| ISSN | 00093920 |
| information source | ERIC |
| Author | Michalek, Julia. School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. |
| Second author |
Lisi, Matteo. Department of Psychology, Royal Holloway University of London, London, UK.
Binetti, Nicola. School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK; International School for Advanced Studies (SISSA), Trieste, Italy. Ozkaya, Sumeyye. School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. Hadfield, Kristin. School of Psychology, Trinity Centre for Global Health, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland. Dajani, Rana. Department of Biology and Biotechnology, Faculty of Science, Hashemite University, Zarqa, Jordan. Mareschal, Isabelle. School of Biological and Behavioural Sciences, Queen Mary University of London, London, UK. |
| Pages | pp. 900-909 |
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Peer reviewed
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| Source | Child Development. Vol. 93, no. 4, July-August 2022 |
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Hoboken: Wiley، 2022
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John Wiley & Sons, Inc. 111 River Street. Hoboken, NJ 07030. United States. Wiley. T: 0018008356770. cs-journals@wiley.com. https://www.wiley.com/en-us
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| ERIC document no. | EJ1341228 |
| Electronic Location |
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| Descriptors | War - Child development - Affective behaviour - Mental health - Refugees - Children - Stress - Anxiety - Depression (Psychology) - Depression (Psychology) - Syria - Jordan |
| Language of document | English |
| Country | United States |
Experiences of war and displacement can have profound effects on children's affective development and mental health, although the mechanism(s) underlying these effects remain unknown. This study investigated the link between early adversity and attention to affective stimuli using a free-viewing eye-tracking paradigm with Syrian refugee (n = 31, M[subscript age] = 9.55, 12 female) and Jordanian non-refugee (n = 55, M[subscript age] = 9.98, 30 female) children living in Jordan (March 2020). Questionnaires assessed PTSD, anxiety/depression, insecurity, distress, and trauma. Refugee children showed greater initial avoidance of angry and happy faces compared to non-refugee children, and higher trauma exposure was linked to increased sustained attention to angry stimuli. These findings suggest that war-related trauma may have differential effects on the early and later stages of affective processing in refugee children. (As Provided)
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