APS
30th APS Annual Convention · 2018
Parsing Apart the Residual Impact of Childhood Trauma: Relations between Childhood Trauma Type and Attentional Biases to Negative Stimuli in Depressed Adults
- Kayla Caffey
The University of Texas at Austin - Kean Hsu
The University of Texas at Austin - Alban Foulser
The University of Texas at Austin - Justin Dainer-Best
Bard College - Jason Schumake
The University of Texas at Austin - Christopher Beevers
University of Texas at Austin
Abstract
Though childhood trauma is suggested to lead to residual processes like negatively-biased attention, this relation has primarily been examined in PTSD. In examining a depressed sample, sexual abuse and physical neglect were negatively associated with biases away from negative stimuli, while emotional neglect was associated with biases towards negative stimuli.
Cognitive Processes
