Journal
JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY
Volume 116, Issue 1, Pages 135-143Publisher
AMER PSYCHOLOGICAL ASSOC
DOI: 10.1037/0021-843X.116.1.135
Keywords
depression; vulnerability; bias; attention; children
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Researchers have documented that children of depressed mothers are at elevated risk for developing a depressive disorder themselves. There is Currently little understanding, however, of what factors place these children at elevated risk. In the present study, the authors investigated whether never-disordered daughters whose mothers have experienced recurrent episodes of depression during their daughters' lifetime are characterized by biased processing of emotional information. Following a negative mood induction, participants completed an emotional-faces dot-probe task. Daughters at elevated risk for depression, but not control daughters of never-disordered mothers, selectively attended to negative facial expressions. In contrast, only control daughters selectively attended to positive facial expressions. These results provide support for cognitive vulnerability models of depression.
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