Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety

Abstract Affect-biased attention is an automatic process that prioritizes emotionally or motivationally salient stimuli. Several models of affect-biased attention and its development suggest that it comprises an individual’s ability to both engage with and disengage from emotional stimuli. Researche...

Descripción completa

Guardado en:

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales:	Alicia Vallorani, Xiaoxue Fu, Santiago Morales, Vanessa LoBue, Kristin A. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Formato:	article
Lenguaje:	EN
Publicado:	Nature Portfolio 2021
Materias:	Medicine R Science Q
Acceso en línea:	https://doaj.org/article/1a445d58bb3c44a5837acceee8380866
Etiquetas:	Agregar Etiqueta Sin Etiquetas, Sea el primero en etiquetar este registro!

id	oai:doaj.org-article:1a445d58bb3c44a5837acceee8380866
record_format	dspace
spelling	oai:doaj.org-article:1a445d58bb3c44a5837acceee83808662021-12-02T15:23:28ZVariable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety10.1038/s41598-021-81119-52045-2322https://doaj.org/article/1a445d58bb3c44a5837acceee83808662021-01-01T00:00:00Zhttps://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-81119-5https://doaj.org/toc/2045-2322Abstract Affect-biased attention is an automatic process that prioritizes emotionally or motivationally salient stimuli. Several models of affect-biased attention and its development suggest that it comprises an individual’s ability to both engage with and disengage from emotional stimuli. Researchers typically rely on singular tasks to measure affect-biased attention, which may lead to inconsistent results across studies. Here we examined affect-biased attention across three tasks in a unique sample of 193 infants, using both variable-centered (factor analysis; FA) and person-centered (latent profile analysis; LPA) approaches. Using exploratory FA, we found evidence for two factors of affect-biased attention: an Engagement factor and a Disengagement factor, where greater maternal anxiety was related to less engagement with faces. Using LPA, we found two groups of infants with different patterns of affect-biased attention: a Vigilant group and an Avoidant group. A significant interaction noted that infants higher in negative affect who also had more anxious mothers were most likely to be in the Vigilant group. Overall, these results suggest that both FA and LPA are viable approaches for studying distinct questions related to the development of affect-biased attention, and set the stage for future longitudinal work examining the role of infant negative affect and maternal anxiety in the emergence of affect-biased attention.Alicia ValloraniXiaoxue FuSantiago MoralesVanessa LoBueKristin A. BussKoraly Pérez-EdgarNature PortfolioarticleMedicineRScienceQENScientific Reports, Vol 11, Iss 1, Pp 1-14 (2021)
institution	DOAJ
collection	DOAJ
language	EN
topic	Medicine R Science Q
spellingShingle	Medicine R Science Q Alicia Vallorani Xiaoxue Fu Santiago Morales Vanessa LoBue Kristin A. Buss Koraly Pérez-Edgar Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
description	Abstract Affect-biased attention is an automatic process that prioritizes emotionally or motivationally salient stimuli. Several models of affect-biased attention and its development suggest that it comprises an individual’s ability to both engage with and disengage from emotional stimuli. Researchers typically rely on singular tasks to measure affect-biased attention, which may lead to inconsistent results across studies. Here we examined affect-biased attention across three tasks in a unique sample of 193 infants, using both variable-centered (factor analysis; FA) and person-centered (latent profile analysis; LPA) approaches. Using exploratory FA, we found evidence for two factors of affect-biased attention: an Engagement factor and a Disengagement factor, where greater maternal anxiety was related to less engagement with faces. Using LPA, we found two groups of infants with different patterns of affect-biased attention: a Vigilant group and an Avoidant group. A significant interaction noted that infants higher in negative affect who also had more anxious mothers were most likely to be in the Vigilant group. Overall, these results suggest that both FA and LPA are viable approaches for studying distinct questions related to the development of affect-biased attention, and set the stage for future longitudinal work examining the role of infant negative affect and maternal anxiety in the emergence of affect-biased attention.
format	article
author	Alicia Vallorani Xiaoxue Fu Santiago Morales Vanessa LoBue Kristin A. Buss Koraly Pérez-Edgar
author_facet	Alicia Vallorani Xiaoxue Fu Santiago Morales Vanessa LoBue Kristin A. Buss Koraly Pérez-Edgar
author_sort	Alicia Vallorani
title	Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
title_short	Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
title_full	Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
title_fullStr	Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
title_full_unstemmed	Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
title_sort	variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety
publisher	Nature Portfolio
publishDate	2021
url	https://doaj.org/article/1a445d58bb3c44a5837acceee8380866
work_keys_str_mv	AT aliciavallorani variableandpersoncenteredapproachestoaffectbiasedattentionininfancyrevealuniquerelationswithinfantnegativeaffectandmaternalanxiety AT xiaoxuefu variableandpersoncenteredapproachestoaffectbiasedattentionininfancyrevealuniquerelationswithinfantnegativeaffectandmaternalanxiety AT santiagomorales variableandpersoncenteredapproachestoaffectbiasedattentionininfancyrevealuniquerelationswithinfantnegativeaffectandmaternalanxiety AT vanessalobue variableandpersoncenteredapproachestoaffectbiasedattentionininfancyrevealuniquerelationswithinfantnegativeaffectandmaternalanxiety AT kristinabuss variableandpersoncenteredapproachestoaffectbiasedattentionininfancyrevealuniquerelationswithinfantnegativeaffectandmaternalanxiety AT koralyperezedgar variableandpersoncenteredapproachestoaffectbiasedattentionininfancyrevealuniquerelationswithinfantnegativeaffectandmaternalanxiety
_version_	1718387249052123136

Variable- and person-centered approaches to affect-biased attention in infancy reveal unique relations with infant negative affect and maternal anxiety

Ejemplares similares