Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.

<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the role of personality factors and attentional biases towards emotional faces, in establishing concurrent and prospective risk for mental disorder diagnosis in adolescence.<h4>Method</h4>Data were obtained as part of the IMAGEN study, conduct...

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Main Authors: Maeve O'Leary-Barrett, Robert O Pihl, Eric Artiges, Tobias Banaschewski, Arun L W Bokde, Christian Büchel, Herta Flor, Vincent Frouin, Hugh Garavan, Andreas Heinz, Bernd Ittermann, Karl Mann, Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot, Frauke Nees, Tomas Paus, Zdenka Pausova, Luise Poustka, Marcella Rietschel, Trevor W Robbins, Michael N Smolka, Andreas Ströhle, Gunter Schumann, Patricia J Conrod, IMAGEN Consortium
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Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2015-01-01
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128271
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author Maeve O'Leary-Barrett
Robert O Pihl
Eric Artiges
Tobias Banaschewski
Arun L W Bokde
Christian Büchel
Herta Flor
Vincent Frouin
Hugh Garavan
Andreas Heinz
Bernd Ittermann
Karl Mann
Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot
Frauke Nees
Tomas Paus
Zdenka Pausova
Luise Poustka
Marcella Rietschel
Trevor W Robbins
Michael N Smolka
Andreas Ströhle
Gunter Schumann
Patricia J Conrod
IMAGEN Consortium
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Robert O Pihl
Eric Artiges
Tobias Banaschewski
Arun L W Bokde
Christian Büchel
Herta Flor
Vincent Frouin
Hugh Garavan
Andreas Heinz
Bernd Ittermann
Karl Mann
Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot
Frauke Nees
Tomas Paus
Zdenka Pausova
Luise Poustka
Marcella Rietschel
Trevor W Robbins
Michael N Smolka
Andreas Ströhle
Gunter Schumann
Patricia J Conrod
IMAGEN Consortium
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description <h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the role of personality factors and attentional biases towards emotional faces, in establishing concurrent and prospective risk for mental disorder diagnosis in adolescence.<h4>Method</h4>Data were obtained as part of the IMAGEN study, conducted across 8 European sites, with a community sample of 2257 adolescents. At 14 years, participants completed an emotional variant of the dot-probe task, as well two personality measures, namely the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale and the revised NEO Personality Inventory. At 14 and 16 years, participants and their parents were interviewed to determine symptoms of mental disorders.<h4>Results</h4>Personality traits were general and specific risk indicators for mental disorders at 14 years. Increased specificity was obtained when investigating the likelihood of mental disorders over a 2-year period, with the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale showing incremental validity over the NEO Personality Inventory. Attentional biases to emotional faces did not characterise or predict mental disorders examined in the current sample.<h4>Discussion</h4>Personality traits can indicate concurrent and prospective risk for mental disorders in a community youth sample, and identify at-risk youth beyond the impact of baseline symptoms. This study does not support the hypothesis that attentional biases mediate the relationship between personality and psychopathology in a community sample. Task and sample characteristics that contribute to differing results among studies are discussed.
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spelling doaj-art-ea4d2dae7f5f4834bae0e7ac820a40902025-08-20T02:34:13ZengPublic Library of Science (PLoS)PLoS ONE1932-62032015-01-01106e012827110.1371/journal.pone.0128271Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.Maeve O'Leary-BarrettRobert O PihlEric ArtigesTobias BanaschewskiArun L W BokdeChristian BüchelHerta FlorVincent FrouinHugh GaravanAndreas HeinzBernd IttermannKarl MannMarie-Laure Paillère-MartinotFrauke NeesTomas PausZdenka PausovaLuise PoustkaMarcella RietschelTrevor W RobbinsMichael N SmolkaAndreas StröhleGunter SchumannPatricia J ConrodIMAGEN Consortium<h4>Objective</h4>To investigate the role of personality factors and attentional biases towards emotional faces, in establishing concurrent and prospective risk for mental disorder diagnosis in adolescence.<h4>Method</h4>Data were obtained as part of the IMAGEN study, conducted across 8 European sites, with a community sample of 2257 adolescents. At 14 years, participants completed an emotional variant of the dot-probe task, as well two personality measures, namely the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale and the revised NEO Personality Inventory. At 14 and 16 years, participants and their parents were interviewed to determine symptoms of mental disorders.<h4>Results</h4>Personality traits were general and specific risk indicators for mental disorders at 14 years. Increased specificity was obtained when investigating the likelihood of mental disorders over a 2-year period, with the Substance Use Risk Profile Scale showing incremental validity over the NEO Personality Inventory. Attentional biases to emotional faces did not characterise or predict mental disorders examined in the current sample.<h4>Discussion</h4>Personality traits can indicate concurrent and prospective risk for mental disorders in a community youth sample, and identify at-risk youth beyond the impact of baseline symptoms. This study does not support the hypothesis that attentional biases mediate the relationship between personality and psychopathology in a community sample. Task and sample characteristics that contribute to differing results among studies are discussed.https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128271
spellingShingle Maeve O'Leary-Barrett
Robert O Pihl
Eric Artiges
Tobias Banaschewski
Arun L W Bokde
Christian Büchel
Herta Flor
Vincent Frouin
Hugh Garavan
Andreas Heinz
Bernd Ittermann
Karl Mann
Marie-Laure Paillère-Martinot
Frauke Nees
Tomas Paus
Zdenka Pausova
Luise Poustka
Marcella Rietschel
Trevor W Robbins
Michael N Smolka
Andreas Ströhle
Gunter Schumann
Patricia J Conrod
IMAGEN Consortium
Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.
PLoS ONE
title Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.
title_full Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.
title_fullStr Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.
title_full_unstemmed Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.
title_short Personality, Attentional Biases towards Emotional Faces and Symptoms of Mental Disorders in an Adolescent Sample.
title_sort personality attentional biases towards emotional faces and symptoms of mental disorders in an adolescent sample
url https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0128271
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