@article{ddd.uab.cat:173913,
      author = {Ezpeleta, Lourdes and Navarro, J. B. and Osa, Nuria de la and
               Penelo Werner, Eva and Trepat, Esther and Martín-Romera,
               Virginia and Doménech Massons, José M.},
       title = {Attention to emotion through a go/no-go task in children with
               oppositionality and callous-unemotional traits},
     journal = {Comprehensive Psychiatry},
        year = {2017},
      volume = {75},
       pages = {35--45},
    abstract = {Background: There is debate about whether the difficulties that
               children with different degrees of oppositionality (ODD) and
               callous-unemotional traits (CU) have in processing emotions are
               global or specific. The aim of this study is to identify
               difficulties in recognizing emotion (happiness, anger, sadness
               and fear) through a go/no-go task in children with different
               levels of ODD and CU traits. Method: A total of 320 8-year-old
               children were assessed through questionnaires filled out by
               teachers about oppositional defiant symptoms and CU traits and
               were then distributed into four groups: LowCU-HighODD, HighCU-
               LowODD, HighCU-HighODD and a comparison group (LowCU-LowODD).
               Results: The analyses of variance comparing the 4 groups showed
               that the two groups with high ODD were less accurate than the
               control group in recognizing the emotion when the stimuli
               expressed happiness, fear or neutral emotion. The HighCU-HighODD
               group differed in the quality of the response (correct/wrong
               responses) but not in the reaction time in relation to the
               comparison group. The LowCU-HighODD group was faster to respond
               to emotions than the comparison group. Implications: The results
               show that the deficit in emotion processing is not restricted to
               specific distressing emotions such as fear or sadness, but they
               point to a global impairment in emotion processing in children
               scoring high in the constructs studied. The results also suggest
               that the difficulties that children with combined CU traits and
               oppositional conduct problems have in processing emotions are
               more of an emotional rather than an attentional nature},
         doi = {10.1016/j.comppsych.2017.02.004},
         url = {https://ddd.uab.cat/record/173913},
}