Working memory and emotional interpretation bias in a sample of Syrian refugee adolescents.
Adolescents
Emotion
Refugee
Trauma
War
Working memory
interpretation bias
Journal
European child & adolescent psychiatry
ISSN: 1435-165X
Titre abrégé: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
Pays: Germany
ID NLM: 9212296
Informations de publication
Date de publication:
Dec 2021
Dec 2021
Historique:
received:
05
06
2020
accepted:
25
09
2020
pubmed:
8
10
2020
medline:
26
11
2021
entrez:
7
10
2020
Statut:
ppublish
Résumé
The number of adolescent refugees around the world has been continuously increasing over the past few years trying to escape war and terror, among other things. Such experience not only increases the risk for mental health problems including anxiety, depression, and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD), but also may have implications for socio-cognitive development. This study tested cognitive-affective processing in refugee adolescents who had escaped armed conflict in Syria and now resided in Istanbul, Turkey. Adolescents were split into a high trauma (n = 31, 12 girls, mean age = 11.70 years, SD = 1.15 years) and low trauma (n = 27, 14 girls, mean age = 11.07 years, SD = 1.39 years) symptom group using median split, and performed a working memory task with emotional distraction to assess cognitive control and a surprise faces task to assess emotional interpretation bias. The results indicated that high (vs. low) trauma symptom youth were ~ 20% worse correctly remembering the spatial location of a cue, although both groups performed at very low levels. However, this finding was not modulated by emotion. In addition, although all youths also had a ~ 20% bias toward interpreting ambiguous (surprise) faces as more negative, the high (vs. low) symptom youth were faster when allocating such a face to the positive (vs. negative) emotion category. The findings suggest the impact of war-related trauma on cognitive-affective processes essential to healthy development.
Identifiants
pubmed: 33025075
doi: 10.1007/s00787-020-01656-8
pii: 10.1007/s00787-020-01656-8
doi:
Types de publication
Journal Article
Langues
eng
Sous-ensembles de citation
IM
Pagination
1885-1894Subventions
Organisme : Bijzonder Onderzoeksfonds
ID : 01J05415
Informations de copyright
© 2020. Springer-Verlag GmbH Germany, part of Springer Nature.
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