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Paternal adverse childhood experiences and offspring’s attentional disengagement from faces at 8 months—Results from the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study
Tekijät: Klimek, Magdalena; Karlsson, Hasse; Karlsson, Linnea; Korja, Riikka; Nolvi, Saara; Häikiö, Tuomo; Tuulari, Jetro J.; Kataja, Eeva-Leena
Toimittaja: Magnus Maria Christine
Kustantaja: Public Library of Science (PLoS)
Kustannuspaikka: SAN FRANCISCO
Julkaisuvuosi: 2025
Lehti: PLoS ONE
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: PLOS One
Lehden akronyymi: PLOS ONE
Artikkelin numero: e0326437
Vuosikerta: 20
Numero: 7
Sivujen määrä: 16
eISSN: 1932-6203
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326437
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Verkko-osoite: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0326437
Rinnakkaistallenteen osoite: https://research.utu.fi/converis/portal/detail/Publication/499410164
Rinnakkaistallenteen lisenssi: CC BY
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Paternal adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) have been recently linked to offspring's brain development. Yet, none of the previous studies in humans have explored the association between paternal ACEs and a child's attentional bias for facial expressions of emotion. Our study fills this gap. Data were collected from 239 fathers (mean age 32.15; SD 5.04) and their children at 8 months of age who were part of the FinnBrain Birth Cohort Study. Paternal ACEs were evaluated using the Trauma and Distress Scale (TADS) in five domains: emotional and physical neglect, emotional and physical abuse, and sexual abuse. In children, eye-tracking was used to study attentional engagement to emotional faces vs. non-faces and distractors, and to calculate face and fear bias indices. Hierarchical linear regression and the Mann-Whitney U test were used for analyses. A negative association between paternal sexual abuse and face bias was found in children (p = 0.043), when paternal postpartum anxiety and sex of the child were controlled, however the effect size was rather low. Additionally, daughters (n = 6) of sexually abused fathers expressed lower face bias (p = 0.02) and higher fear bias (p = 0.04) than daughters of sexually non-abused fathers. Our preliminary exploration suggests a potential intergenerational effect of paternal exposure to sexual abuse on the processing of facial expression among daughters at the age of 8 months, yet the results require further confirmatory analyses, especially in a larger study group of ACEs-exposed individuals.
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This study was supported by the Academy of Finland in the form of a grant awarded to LK and E-LK #308589, Strategic Research Council (SRC) within the Research Council of Finland awarded to LK (#352648, #352655), Research Council of Finland awarded to RK (#346121, #308252), the Signe and Ane Gyllenberg Foundation (LK,E-LK,RK,JJT,SN), Finnish State Grants for Clinical Research (VTR) (LK,E-LK,RK,JJT,SN), Finnish Cultural Foundation (RK,SN), Yrjö Jahnsson Foundation (LK,RK,SN), Emil Aaltonen Foundation (JJT,SN). The study was also supported by the Jagiellonian University International Relations Office within the Erasmus+ program awarded to MK, the “Better research for better quality of life – qLIFE” awarded to MK (qL.1.4.2024.7), and Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education grant awarded to MK (N43/DBS/000303). The specific roles of the authors are articulated in the ‘author contributions’ section. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
