TY - JOUR
T1 - Parenting practices moderate the link between attention to the eyes and callous unemotional traits in children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder
T2 - An eye-tracking study
AU - Levantini, Valentina
AU - Muratori, Pietro
AU - Calderoni, Sara
AU - Inguaggiato, Emanuela
AU - Masi, Gabriele
AU - Milone, Annarita
AU - Tonacci, Alessandro
AU - Billeci, Lucia
N1 - Funding Information:
P.M., V.L., G.M., and AM are supported by a grant from the IRCCS Fondazione Stella Maris (Ricerca Corrente RC 2763771, 2.21_Tipizzazione genetico-clinica dei disturbi del comportamento in età evolutiva: implicazioni cliniche e di trattamento and the ‘5* 1000’ voluntary contributions, Italian Ministry of Health).
Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are associated with gaze pattern deficits in youths, though it has not yet been explored if environmental factors could influence this relationship. Since parenting can influence both CU traits and children's emotion processing, the current study sought to test whether parenting moderated the relation between gaze pattern deficits and CU traits in a sample of children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder. The sample included 92 boys (aged 7–12 years) with Conduct Disorder (N = 12) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (N = 80). All children completed a task, during which they were presented with 24 images depicting happy, sad, fearful, disgusted, angry, and neutral facial expressions. Gaze pattern has been recorded throughout the task with an eye-tracker. Positive parenting moderated the association between CU traits and first fixation duration to the eyes of facial expressions depicting negative emotions. Negative parenting moderated the association between CU traits and fixation count and fixation duration to the eyes of negative emotions. Negative parenting along with reduced attention to emotional cues (i.e., eyes) may identify a group of youths with Disruptive Behavior Disorder diagnosis at risk for severe outcomes.
AB - Callous-unemotional (CU) traits are associated with gaze pattern deficits in youths, though it has not yet been explored if environmental factors could influence this relationship. Since parenting can influence both CU traits and children's emotion processing, the current study sought to test whether parenting moderated the relation between gaze pattern deficits and CU traits in a sample of children with Disruptive Behavior Disorder. The sample included 92 boys (aged 7–12 years) with Conduct Disorder (N = 12) and Oppositional Defiant Disorder (N = 80). All children completed a task, during which they were presented with 24 images depicting happy, sad, fearful, disgusted, angry, and neutral facial expressions. Gaze pattern has been recorded throughout the task with an eye-tracker. Positive parenting moderated the association between CU traits and first fixation duration to the eyes of facial expressions depicting negative emotions. Negative parenting moderated the association between CU traits and fixation count and fixation duration to the eyes of negative emotions. Negative parenting along with reduced attention to emotional cues (i.e., eyes) may identify a group of youths with Disruptive Behavior Disorder diagnosis at risk for severe outcomes.
KW - Callous unemotional traits
KW - Conduct disorder
KW - Eye gaze
KW - Oppositional defiant disorder
KW - Parenting
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U2 - 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.11.016
DO - 10.1016/j.jpsychires.2021.11.016
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85119999646
JO - Journal of Psychiatric Research
JF - Journal of Psychiatric Research
SN - 0022-3956
ER -