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Leigha A. MacNeill, Xiaoxue Fu, K. Buss, Koraly Pérez-Edgar
Development and Psychopathology, 2021
Development and Psychopathology, 2021
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MacNeill, L. A., Fu, X., Buss, K., & Pérez-Edgar, K. (2021). Do you see what I mean?: Using mobile eye tracking to capture parent–child dynamics in the context of anxiety risk. Development and Psychopathology.
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MacNeill, Leigha A., Xiaoxue Fu, K. Buss, and Koraly Pérez-Edgar. “Do You See What I Mean?: Using Mobile Eye Tracking to Capture Parent–Child Dynamics in the Context of Anxiety Risk.” Development and Psychopathology (2021).
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MacNeill, Leigha A., et al. “Do You See What I Mean?: Using Mobile Eye Tracking to Capture Parent–Child Dynamics in the Context of Anxiety Risk.” Development and Psychopathology, 2021.
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@article{leigha2021a,
title = {Do you see what I mean?: Using mobile eye tracking to capture parent–child dynamics in the context of anxiety risk},
year = {2021},
journal = {Development and Psychopathology},
author = {MacNeill, Leigha A. and Fu, Xiaoxue and Buss, K. and Pérez-Edgar, Koraly}
}
Abstract
Abstract Temperamental behavioral inhibition (BI) is a robust endophenotype for anxiety characterized by increased sensitivity to novelty. Controlling parenting can reinforce children's wariness by rewarding signs of distress. Fine-grained, dynamic measures are needed to better understand both how children perceive their parent's behaviors and the mechanisms supporting evident relations between parenting and socioemotional functioning. The current study examined dyadic attractor patterns (average mean durations) with state space grids, using children's attention patterns (captured via mobile eye tracking) and parental behavior (positive reinforcement, teaching, directives, intrusion), as functions of child BI and parent anxiety. Forty 5- to 7-year-old children and their primary caregivers completed a set of challenging puzzles, during which the child wore a head-mounted eye tracker. Child BI was positively correlated with proportion of parent's time spent teaching. Child age was negatively related, and parent anxiety level was positively related, to parent-focused/controlling parenting attractor strength. There was a significant interaction between parent anxiety level and child age predicting parent-focused/controlling parenting attractor strength. This study is a first step to examining the co-occurrence of parenting behavior and child attention in the context of child BI and parental anxiety levels.
