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Wenhai Zhang¹, Jiamei Lu, Ziyin Ni

¹Mental Health Center, Yancheng Institute of Technology, Yancheng City 224051, China. zwh20120106@126.com

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Area of Science:

Neuroscience
Developmental Psychology
Affective Science

Background:

Individual differences in harm avoidance (HA) are known to affect electrophysiological responses to emotional stimuli in adults.
Understanding these differences in adolescents is crucial for comprehending developmental trajectories of emotional processing.

Purpose of the Study:

To investigate whether harm avoidance (HA) in adolescents modulates the processing of affective information using electrophysiological measures.
To explore the relationship between HA and event-related potentials (ERPs) in response to emotionally valenced stimuli.

Main Methods:

Collected event-related potentials (ERPs) from 70 adolescents while they viewed 90 pictures from the Chinese Affective Picture System.
Utilized multiple regression analyses to examine the association between harm avoidance scores and ERP components, specifically the late positive potential (LPP).

Main Results:

Harm avoidance (HA) negatively predicted the late positive potential (LPP) for positive pictures, indicating reduced processing.
HA positively predicted the LPP for negative pictures, suggesting heightened processing.
No significant correlation was found between HA and LPP for neutral pictures.

Conclusions:

Adolescent harm avoidance (HA) significantly modulates the late evaluative stage of affective information processing.
High-HA adolescents exhibit an attentional bias towards negative pictures, whereas low-HA adolescents show an attentional bias towards positive pictures.
These distinct attentional patterns suggest that individual differences in HA influence the late selective attention mechanisms for emotional stimuli in adolescence.