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Lack of Attentional Bias for Emotional Information in Clinically Depressed Children and Adolescents on the Dot Probe Task

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 March 2000

Hamid T. Neshat-Doost ,
Ali R. Moradi ,
Mohammad R. Taghavi ,
William Yule  and
Tim Dalgleish
Hamid T. Neshat-Doost
Affiliation:
Isfahan University, Isfahan, Iran
Ali R. Moradi
Affiliation:
Teacher-Training University, Tehran, Iran
Mohammad R. Taghavi
Affiliation:
Shiraz University, Shiraz, Iran
William Yule
Affiliation:
Institute of Psychiatry, London, U.K.
Tim Dalgleish
Affiliation:
Medical Research Council Cognition and Brain Sciences Unit, Cambridge, U.K.
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Abstract

The present study utilised a cognitive paradigm to investigate attentional biases in clinically depressed children and adolescents. Two groups of children and adolescents—clinically depressed (N = 19) and normal controls (N = 26)—were asked to complete a computerised version of the attentional dot probe paradigm similar to that used by MacLeod, Mathews, and Tata (1986). Results provided no support for an attentional bias, either toward depression-related words or threat words, in the depressed group. This finding is discussed in the context of cognitive theories of anxiety and depression.

Keywords

Childhood depressioncognitive biasattentional deployment paradigminformation processing
Type
Research Article
Information
The Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines , Volume 41 , Issue 3 , March 2000 , pp. 363 - 368
Copyright
© 2000 Association for Child Psychology and Psychiatry

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