Journal of International Psychiatry

Objective To investigate the attentional bias towards emotional faces of among abused children with different level of resilience. Methods 90 pupils was asked to complete shi-chang Yang self-designed questionnaire and were divided into abused (AC) and non-abused children (NAC). Both AC and NAC completed the resilience scale and were divided into high and low resilience group (HR and LR), respectively. At last, all participants complete a dot-probe task. Results The Interpersonal Support could negatively predicted the reaction time(RT) for happy faces as both valid and invalid cues and angry faces as invalid cues among the AC group, while the Family Support could negatively predicted the reaction time(RT) for happy faces as both valid and invalid cues among the NAC group. Conclusion Although the AC group had very low family support, the interpersonal support from others could predict their cognitive processing for emotional stimuli.

Resilience; abused children; attentional bias; emotional faces