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Kleberg, Johan Lundin; Högström, Jens; Sundström, Karin; Frick, Andreas; Serlachius, Eva
Journal of affective disorders, 01/2021, Volume: 278Journal Article
•Youth with social anxiety often perceive eye contact as aversive and avoid it.•We examined the mechanisms underlying this phenomenon.•Youth with SAD were primed to look at either the eyes or mouth of faces.•Individuals with SAD shifted their gaze slower from eyes than healthy controls.•Impaired disengagement from eyes may contribute to the experience of eye contact as aversive. Social anxiety disorder (SAD) is linked to atypical attention to other's eyes. Empirical literature about this phenomenon in childhood and adolescence is scarce. Previous studies in adults have suggested that SAD may be characterized by either rapid avoidance of eye contact, or by impaired shifting of attention away from eyes once eye contact has been established. SAD has also been linked to quick orienting towards eyes, indicating vigilant monitoring of perceived threat. In the largest eye-tracking study of youth with SAD to date, 10 to 17 year-olds with SAD (n = 88) and healthy controls (n = 62) were primed to look at either the eyes or the mouth of human faces. The latency and likelihood of a first gaze shift from, or to the eyes, was measured. Individuals with SAD were slower to shift their gaze away from the eye region of faces than controls, but did not differ in orienting toward eyes. Participants were assessed once after the onset of SAD symptoms, meaning that the longitudinal predictive value of delayed gaze shifts from others’ eyes could not be examined. Youth with SAD may be impaired in shifting attention from other's eyes. This could contribute to the experience of eye contact as aversive, and may be a maintaining factor of childhood SAD.
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