Emotional attentional bias among adolescents with different levels of interpersonal competence

Key Points

• The research aims to explore how different levels of interpersonal competence affect emotional attentional bias in adolescents.
• Sixty adolescents were categorized into low, medium, and high interpersonal competence groups.
• Two eye-tracking experiments examined attention allocation to emotional faces and texts.
• Experiment 1 focused on processing of emotional faces.
• Experiment 2 assessed responses to emotional texts.
• Adolescents showed a general bias towards negative faces.
• High competence individuals displayed advantages in emotional alertness and processing efficiency.
• The low competence group was sensitive to positive faces, while the medium group showed no clear bias.
• In negative text conditions, only the high competence group exhibited an attention bias.