title: Anxiety sensitivity is associated with attentional bias for pain-related information in healthy children and adolescents.
abstract: This investigation explored the association between anxiety sensitivity and attentional bias for threatening information in children and adolescents (N = 40). Participants completed a pictorial version of the visual-probe task, featuring pain-related, health-threat and general-threat images presented for 500 and 1250 ms. Regression analyses revealed significant associations between anxiety sensitivity and attentional bias towards pain-related images presented for 500 ms and between state anxiety and attentional bias towards general-threat images presented for 1250 ms. These results suggest that in children and adolescents, anxiety sensitivity is associated with attentional bias for negative information of personal relevance.
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK D.E.Schoth@soton.ac.uk.
authors.forename: Daniel E
authors.initials: DE
authors.lastname: Schoth
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Lucy
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Golding
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Emily
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Johnson
authors.affiliation: University of Southampton, UK.
authors.forename: Christina
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Liossi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001007:Anxiety / Q000503:physiopathology*; D000070379:Attentional Bias / Q000502:physiology*; D002648:Child; D005239:Fear / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010146:Pain / Q000503:physiopathology*; D014796:Visual Perception / Q000502:physiology*
keywords: anxiety; children; cognitive processing; health psychology; quantitative methods