title: Childhood anxiety and attention to emotion faces in a modified stroop task.
abstract: This study used an emotional face stroop task to investigate the effects of self-report trait anxiety, social concern (SC), and chronological age (CA) on reaction time to match coloured outlines of angry, happy, and neutral faces (and control faces with scrambled features) with coloured buttons in a community sample of 74 children aged 6-12 years. The results showed an interference of colour matching for angry (relative to neutral) faces in children with elevated SC. The same effect was not found for happy or control faces. In addition, the results suggest that selective attention to angry faces in children with social concern (SC) was not significantly moderated by age.
authors.affiliation: School of Psychology, Developmental Brain-Behaviour Laboratory, University of Southampton, Southampton SO17 1BJ, UK. jah7@soton.ac.uk
authors.forename: Julie A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Hadwin
authors.forename: Nick
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Donnelly
authors.forename: Anne
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Richards
authors.forename: Christopher C
authors.initials: CC
authors.lastname: French
authors.forename: Umang
authors.initials: U
authors.lastname: Patel
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000503:physiopathology*; D001288:Attention / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D002755:Choice Behavior / Q000502:physiology; D003220:Conflict, Psychological; D004644:Emotions / Q000502:physiology*; D005149:Facial Expression; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009483:Neuropsychological Tests; D010470:Perceptual Masking / Q000502:physiology*; D010775:Photic Stimulation; D011569:Psychiatric Status Rating Scales; D011597:Psychomotor Performance / Q000502:physiology; D011930:Reaction Time / Q000502:physiology; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology