Varying Cognitive Scars – Differential Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and Facial Emotion Processing

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dc.contributor.authorIffland, B., & Neuner, F.
dc.date.accessioned2020-04-28T17:23:51Z
dc.date.available2020-04-28T17:23:51Z
dc.date.issued2020
dc.description.abstractBackground: Distorted cognitive processing has been found among survivors of child maltreatment. However, different types of abuse and neglect may bring about differences in emotion and attention processing. The present study aimed to detect differential associations between various types of childhood maltreatment and attentional biases in facial emotion processing. Methods: A non-clinical sample was recruited on University campus and consisted of 67 individuals with varying degrees of maltreatment. In an evaluative conditioning task, images of faces with neutral emotional expressions were either associated with short videos of intense negative statements, or associated with neutral videos. Subsequently, these faces were used as stimuli in a face in the crowd recognition task in which the familiar faces had to be recognized within a crowd of unfamiliar neutral faces. Results: In multiple linear regression analyses controlling for the intercorrelatedness of types of maltreatment, differential relationships between types of maltreatment and attentional bias were found. While emotional abuse was associated with faster detection of negatively associated faces, emotional neglect was associated with an impaired recognition of familiar stimuli regardless of the emotional content. Conclusion: Results indicated that interindividual differences in cognitive biases may be due to the activation of diverse cognitive schemas based on differential experiences of maltreatmenten_US
dc.identifier.citationIffland, B., & Neuner, F. (2020). Varying Cognitive Scars–Differential Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and Facial Emotion Processing. Frontiers in Psychology, 11, 732.en_US
dc.identifier.urihttps://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2020.00732/full
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11212/4718
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherFrontiers in Psychologyen_US
dc.subjectInternational Resourcesen_US
dc.subjectGermanyen_US
dc.subjectchild maltreatmenten_US
dc.subjectcognitive biasesen_US
dc.subjectresearchen_US
dc.subjectemotion processingen_US
dc.titleVarying Cognitive Scars – Differential Associations Between Types of Childhood Maltreatment and Facial Emotion Processingen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US

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