TY - JOUR JF - ijpcp JO - IJPCP VL - 14 IS - 4 PY - 2009 Y1 - 2009/2/01 TI - The Influence of Trait Anxiety in Children on Attentional Biases for Emotional Faces TT - تأثیر اضطراب خصلتی کودکان در سوگیری توجه نسبت به چهره‌های هیجانی N2 - 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 SP - 404 EP - 410 AU - Shafiee, Hassan AU - Goodarzi, Mohammad Ali AU - Taghavi, Seyed Mohammad Reza AD - KW - children\'s trait anxiety; bias UR - http://ijpcp.iums.ac.ir/article-1-610-en.html ER -