82 Chapter 3 SUPPLEMENT S3.8 Unique associations between emotional abuse and emotional neglect and participants’ self-reported mood, gaze, and neural responses We exploratory tested whether participants’ self-reported mood, gaze, and neural responses were uniquely associated with emotional abuse and emotional neglect. Mood responses We performed two generalized linear mixed regression models. One with emotional abuse, and one with emotional neglect as independent variable, instead of the composite CEM score. The regression models further included gaze direction (i.e., direct versus averted) and target (i.e., self versus unfamiliar other), and their interactions as predictors for participants’ self-reported mood responses. We found a significant interaction between emotional neglect and gaze direction on participants’ mood responses. Individuals who reported more emotional neglect reported a lower mood in response to a direct, but not an averted gaze. We did not find an interaction between emotional neglect and target, indicating that participants’ mood was independent of the gazer (either self or unfamiliar other). There was also no significant three-way interaction between emotional neglect, gaze direction, and target, and emotional neglect was not significantly associated with participants’ mood. While there was a main effect between emotional abuse and participants’ mood (B = -1.38, SE = 0.67, t(77) = -2.06, p = .042), indicating that more experienced emotional abuse was associated with a lower self-reported mood throughout the task, we did not find a significant interaction between emotional abuse and gaze direction, nor between emotional abuse and target. Also, there was no three-way interaction between emotional abuse, gaze direction, and target. Gaze responses We performed two additional generalized linear mixed regression models. One with emotional abuse, and one with emotional neglect as independent variable, instead of the composite CEM score. The regression models further included gaze direction (i.e., direct versus averted) and target (i.e., self versus unfamiliar other), and their interactions as predictors for participants’ gaze responses towards the eye region of the targets. We found a significant interaction between emotional abuse and target on the amount of gaze towards the eye region. Individuals who reported more emotional abuse gazed more towards the eyes of others, while one’s history of emotional abuse did not affect how much they gazed into their own eyes. We did not find an interaction between emotional abuse and gaze direction, indicating that participants’ gaze responses were independent of whether they were confronted with a direct or an averted gaze.
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