NCT02851810

Oculomotor Markers and Attachment in Adolescents

Oculomotor and Neurophysiological Markers of Emotion Regulation and Attachment Styles in Adolescence

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 124 (actual)
• Sponsor: Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Besancon · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 13 Years – 20 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

The study aims to identify specific visual scanning patterns of attachment pictures in adolescent with different attachment style.

Detailed description

Oculomotor parameters will be assessed during visualization of 2 sets of pictures. The first set presents a distress picture and is followed by a slide composed of 3 pictures (one representing comfort, one representing complicity and the last representing a neutral scene). Psychophysiological parameters (skin conductance reactivity-SCR) is also assess during this visualization.

Conditions

• Emotion Dysregulation

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BEHAVIORAL	oculomotor parameter recording	visual scanning behavior is assessed during visualization of emotional pictures
BEHAVIORAL	attachment scale interview (ASI)	ASI is used to determine the attachment style of each participant
BEHAVIORAL	psychophysiological recording	this consists of the measurement of the skin conductance reactivity (SCR) during the picture visualization
BEHAVIORAL	psychometric assessment	self administered questionnaires are used to assess anxiety, depression and alexithymia.
BEHAVIORAL	parent interview	an interview of the adolescent parent is performed in order to assess the confusion of the parent-child role and the interaction between the child and its parent.

Timeline

• Start date: 2013-12-19
• Primary completion: 2017-06-08
• Completion: 2017-06-08
• First posted: 2016-08-02
• Last updated: 2018-10-02

Locations

1 site across 1 country: France