AU - Shafiee, Hassan AU - Goodarzi, Mohammad Ali AU - Taghavi, Seyed Mohammad Reza TI - The Influence of Trait Anxiety in Children on Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces PT - JOURNAL ARTICLE TA - ijpcp JN - ijpcp VO - 14 VI - 4 IP - 4 4099 - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-610-en.html 4100 - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-610-en.pdf SO - ijpcp 4 ABĀ  - AbstractObjectives: The aim of this study was to examine the effect of trait anxiety in children, on attentional biases to emotional facial expressions (angry, happy, neutral). Method: 30 children with high trait anxiety and 30 children with low trait anxiety were selected using Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children and a semi-structured interview. The participants completed the Pictorial Version of the Modified Dot-probe Task. Data were analyzed using multifactor analysis of variance and repeated measures analysis of variance. Results: This study showed that the interaction between trait anxiety and scores of attentional bias, are significant only for angry facial expressions (p CP - IRAN IN - Daneshgah Ave., Post Code: 37918-62, Delijan, Iran, IR. Fax: +98866-4223612 LG - eng PB - ijpcp PG - 404 PT - Original Research YR - 2009