Attentional Bias among Adolescents Who Stutter: Evidence for a Vigilance-Avoidance Effect

Autor/inn/en	Rodgers, Naomi H.; Lau, Jennifer Y. F.; Zebrowski, Patricia M.
Titel	Attentional Bias among Adolescents Who Stutter: Evidence for a Vigilance-Avoidance Effect
Quelle	In: Journal of Speech, Language, and Hearing Research, 63 (2020) 10, S.3349-3363 (15 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Rodgers, Naomi H.)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1092-4388
Schlagwörter	Stuttering; Adolescents; Attention; Bias; Visual Stimuli; Nonverbal Communication; Anxiety; Severity (of Disability); Reaction Time; Iowa + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Stammer; Stottern; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Aufmerksamkeit; Non-verbal communication; Nonverbale Kommunikation; Angst; Schweregrad; Reaktionsvermögen
Abstract	Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine group and individual differences in attentional bias toward and away from socially threatening facial stimuli among adolescents who stutter and age- and sex-matched typically fluent controls. Method: Participants included 86 adolescents (43 stuttering, 43 controls) ranging in age from 13 to 19 years. They completed a computerized dot-probe task, which was modified to allow for separate measurement of attentional engagement with and attentional disengagement from facial stimuli (angry, fearful, neutral expressions). Their response time on this task was the dependent variable. Participants also completed the Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents (SAS-A) and provided a speech sample for analysis of stuttering-like behaviors. Results: The adolescents who stutter were more likely to engage quickly with threatening faces than to maintain attention on neutral faces, and they were also more likely to disengage quickly from threatening faces than to maintain attention on those faces. The typically fluent controls did not show any attentional preference for the threatening faces over the neutral faces in either the engagement or disengagement conditions. The two groups demonstrated equivalent levels of social anxiety that were both, on average, very close to the clinical cutoff score for high social anxiety, although degree of social anxiety did not influence performance in either condition. Stuttering severity did not influence performance among the adolescents who stutter. Conclusion: This study provides preliminary evidence for a vigilance-avoidance pattern of attentional allocation to threatening social stimuli among adolescents who stutter. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01