The Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC) assessed their cohort members (CMs) during the study’s age 8.5 sweep (Focus@8) using the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy’s (DANVA) Faces Subtest.
Details on this measure and the data collected from the CMs are outlined in the table below.
| Years of data collection: | 1999-2001 |
| Domain: | Social cognition |
| Measures: | Nonverbal social information processing |
| Nonverbal receiving ability | |
| Nonverbal sending accuracy | |
| CHC: | Gkn (General domain-specific knowledge) |
| CLOSER Source: | Explore this sweep in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Childhood (5 years to 12 years 11 months) (opens in a new tab) |
| Administration method: | Trained interviewer; clinical setting; computer-assisted personal interview (CAPI) |
| Procedure: | The child was sat in front of a computer screen, and the interviewer explained that they would be shown faces that depicted one of four emotions: happy, sad, angry, or fearful. The child was then shown 24 faces, each for approximately 2 seconds, and asked which of the four emotions corresponded to the faces. Faces were either high or low intensity (i.e. emotion was more or less obvious). |
| Link to questionnaire: | http://www.bristol.ac.uk/alspac/researchers/our-data/clinical-measures/ (opens in new tab) |
| Scoring: | The main outcome variable was the number of correct responses (0 - 24). In cases where there was only one missing value (N = 67), it was assumed the child scored correctly. |
| Item-level variable(s): | f8dv400 - f8dv446a |
| Total score/derived variable(s): | F8DV103 Explore these variables in CLOSER Discovery: ALSPAC Focus at 7 Clinic Dataset (opens in a new tab) |
| Descriptives: | Raw score |
| N = 7303 | |
| Range = 0 - 24 | |
| Mean = 22.45 | |
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| Age of participants (months): | Mean = 103.82 months, SD = 3.92, Range = 89 - 127 |
| Other sweep and/or cohort: | None |
| Source: | Nowicki, S., & Duke, M. P. (1994). Individual differences in the nonverbal communication of affect: The Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy Scale. Journal of Nonverbal Behavior, 18(1), 9-35. |
| Technical resources: | Nowicki, S. (2000). Manual for the receptive tests of the Diagnostic Analysis of Nonverbal Accuracy 2. Atlanta, GA: Department of Psychology, Emory University. |
| Example articles: | Thompson, A., Sullivan, S., Heron, J., Thomas, K., Zammit, S., Horwood, J., ... & Harrison, G. (2011). Childhood facial emotion recognition and psychosis-like symptoms in a nonclinical population at 12 years of age: results from the ALSPAC birth cohort. Cognitive Neuropsychiatry, 16(2), 136-157. |
| Barona, M., Kothari, R., Skuse, D., & Micali, N. (2015). Social communication and emotion difficulties and second to fourth digit ratio in a large community-based sample. Molecular Autism, 6(1), 68. |
For the named items in the table above, links are provided to their corresponding content on CLOSER Discovery. Where a variable range is provided, full variable lists can be accessed through the ‘Variable Groups’ tab on the linked Discovery page.
Go to:
- Overview of all cognitive measures in ALSPAC
- Overview of childhood cognitive measures across all studies
This page is part of CLOSER’s ‘A guide to the cognitive measures in five British birth cohort studies’.