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Eye Avoidance of Threatening Facial Expressions in Parents of Children with ASD

OBJECTIVE: Previous research found that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was characterized by eye avoidance of threatening facial expressions. However, it still remains unclear as to whether these abnormalities are present in parents of children with ASD. Our study aimed to investigate the gaze patter...

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Autores principales: Yang, Tingting, Li, Dandan, Zhang, Yifan, Zhang, Long, Li, Hong, Ji, Gong-Jun, Yang, Zhenhai, Zhang, Lei, Zhu, Chunyan, Wang, Kai
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Publicado: Dove 2021
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34140771
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S300491
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author Yang, Tingting
Li, Dandan
Zhang, Yifan
Zhang, Long
Li, Hong
Ji, Gong-Jun
Yang, Zhenhai
Zhang, Lei
Zhu, Chunyan
Wang, Kai
author_facet Yang, Tingting
Li, Dandan
Zhang, Yifan
Zhang, Long
Li, Hong
Ji, Gong-Jun
Yang, Zhenhai
Zhang, Lei
Zhu, Chunyan
Wang, Kai
author_sort Yang, Tingting
collection PubMed
description OBJECTIVE: Previous research found that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was characterized by eye avoidance of threatening facial expressions. However, it still remains unclear as to whether these abnormalities are present in parents of children with ASD. Our study aimed to investigate the gaze patterns of parents of children with ASD in the threatening facial expressions. METHODS: Thirty-four parents of children with ASD and 35 parents of typically developing (TD) children participated in our study. We investigated the total fixation time of participants when they viewed different facial expression (eg, happy, fearful, angry, sad) videos and examined changes in the fixation duration over time. RESULTS: We observed the following: a) the total fixation time of the parents of children with ASD on the eyes of fearful faces was significantly shorter than that of the normal group, and the difference lasted for five seconds (four to six seconds, eight to nine seconds) throughout the process; and b) The parents of children with ASD avoided the eyes of angry expression faces at around five seconds after the stimulus onset. CONCLUSION: We concluded that parents of children with ASD tended to avoid the eyes of threatening expression faces while viewing the dynamic emotions video.
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spelling pubmed-82030982021-06-16 Eye Avoidance of Threatening Facial Expressions in Parents of Children with ASD Yang, Tingting Li, Dandan Zhang, Yifan Zhang, Long Li, Hong Ji, Gong-Jun Yang, Zhenhai Zhang, Lei Zhu, Chunyan Wang, Kai Neuropsychiatr Dis Treat Original Research OBJECTIVE: Previous research found that autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was characterized by eye avoidance of threatening facial expressions. However, it still remains unclear as to whether these abnormalities are present in parents of children with ASD. Our study aimed to investigate the gaze patterns of parents of children with ASD in the threatening facial expressions. METHODS: Thirty-four parents of children with ASD and 35 parents of typically developing (TD) children participated in our study. We investigated the total fixation time of participants when they viewed different facial expression (eg, happy, fearful, angry, sad) videos and examined changes in the fixation duration over time. RESULTS: We observed the following: a) the total fixation time of the parents of children with ASD on the eyes of fearful faces was significantly shorter than that of the normal group, and the difference lasted for five seconds (four to six seconds, eight to nine seconds) throughout the process; and b) The parents of children with ASD avoided the eyes of angry expression faces at around five seconds after the stimulus onset. CONCLUSION: We concluded that parents of children with ASD tended to avoid the eyes of threatening expression faces while viewing the dynamic emotions video. Dove 2021-06-09 /pmc/articles/PMC8203098/ /pubmed/34140771 http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S300491 Text en © 2021 Yang et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/This work is published and licensed by Dove Medical Press Limited. The full terms of this license are available at https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php and incorporate the Creative Commons Attribution – Non Commercial (unported, v3.0) License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/) ). By accessing the work you hereby accept the Terms. Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted without any further permission from Dove Medical Press Limited, provided the work is properly attributed. For permission for commercial use of this work, please see paragraphs 4.2 and 5 of our Terms (https://www.dovepress.com/terms.php).
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Yang, Tingting
Li, Dandan
Zhang, Yifan
Zhang, Long
Li, Hong
Ji, Gong-Jun
Yang, Zhenhai
Zhang, Lei
Zhu, Chunyan
Wang, Kai
Eye Avoidance of Threatening Facial Expressions in Parents of Children with ASD
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title_fullStr Eye Avoidance of Threatening Facial Expressions in Parents of Children with ASD
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title_short Eye Avoidance of Threatening Facial Expressions in Parents of Children with ASD
title_sort eye avoidance of threatening facial expressions in parents of children with asd
topic Original Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8203098/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34140771
http://dx.doi.org/10.2147/NDT.S300491
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