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| Research article summary (published 27 Feb 2003): |
Suppressed attention to rejection, ridicule, and failure cues: a unique correlate of reactive but not proactive aggression in youth.
Full Abstract
Tested the hypothesis that reactive aggression (RA) but not proactive aggression (PA) should be associated with heightened attention to rejection, ridicule, and failure cues. In addition to a reaction time measure of selective attention, participants also completed a vignette-based interview regarding their interpretation of ambiguous social situations, and children, parents, and teachers completed questionnaire measures of child aggression and related variables. Consistent with predictions, RA but not PA was related to biased attention for rejection, ridicule, and failure cues. However, contrary to expectation, heightened RA scores were associated with suppressed rather than enhanced attention to such cues. Despite the unexpected direction of this attentional bias, as predicted it was significantly related to the well-established tendency of aggressive children to interpret ambiguous social situations as threatening, which was also uniquely related to RA. Further, the correlation between suppressed attention and RA was fully mediated by interpretation bias.
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Author information
Author/s: Schippell, Pamela L (PL); Vasey, Michael W (MW); Cravens-Brown, Lisa M (LM); Bretveld, Robert A (RA);
Affiliation: Department of Psychology, Ohio State University, 1885 Neil Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210-1222, USA.
Grants: MH61881 (Agency:United States NIMH)
Journal and publication information
Publication Type: Journal Article; Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't; Research Support, U.S. Gov't, P.H.S.
Journal: Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 (J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol), published in United States. (Language: eng)
Reference: 2003-Mar; vol 32 (issue 1) : pp 40-55
Dates: Created 2003/03/03; Completed 2003/04/22; Revised 2007/11/14;
PMID: 12573931, status: MEDLINE (last retrieval date: 11/6/2008)
Sourced from the National Library of Medicine. Abstract text and other information may be subject to copyright.
Comments and Corrections
CommentIn: J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2003 Mar;32(1):81-93. (PMID: 12573934)
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