Simona Skripkauskaite- MSc, PhD
- Researcher at University of Oxford
Simona Skripkauskaite
- MSc, PhD
- Researcher at University of Oxford
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Introduction
Current institution
Additional affiliations
October 2018 - September 2020
Position
- PostDoc Position
Description
- Researching the development of attention to social interactions at the 'Becoming Social' project - https://sites.google.com/view/devsocialvislab/.
Education
January 2014 - March 2018
September 2011 - June 2013
Publications
Publications (25)
Background: Bidirectional and transactional models of parent-child mental health symptom exchange suggest that parents and offspring have the potential to influence functioning in each other. Many studies have explored bidirectional associations; however, none have studied transactional associations involving parent internalising, offspring interna...
Background
Sleep problems are common in young people. Yet brief screening measures to identify those most in need of an intervention are lacking. This study investigated the potential of the two-item Sleep Condition Indicator (SCI-02) for screening insomnia symptoms in children and adolescents. We sought to establish whether there are distinct subg...
To be able to develop effective policy and targeted support for children and young people, it is vital to develop and validate measures that enable us to understand what aspects of pandemics are associated with anxiety and stress across a wide age range. We examined the psychometric properties of the Pandemic Anxiety Scale– Parent-report (PAS-P), w...
Background. The prevalence of self-harm is higher in neurodivergent than in neurotypical individuals. Help-seeking is an important component of the management of mental health problems and self-harm, but neurodivergent individuals report encountering multiple barriers in accessing support.Aims. To understand whether and how neurodivergent adolescen...
Research suggests that static depictions of social interactions preferentially capture our attention compared to non-interactions. Research also suggests that motion captures attention. To date, therefore, it is unknown whether dynamic social interactions preferentially capture attention relative to non-interactions, over and above motion cues. The...
Introduction
The COVID-19 pandemic caused significant disruption to the lives of children and their families. Pre-school children may have been particularly vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic, with the closure of childcare facilities, playgrounds, playcentres and parent and toddler groups limiting their opportunities for social interaction a...
Background
The COVID‐19 pandemic caused significant disruption to the lives of children and their families. Pre‐school children may have been particularly vulnerable to the effects of the pandemic, with the closure of childcare facilities, playgrounds, playcentres and parent and toddler groups limiting their opportunities for social interaction at...
Background
The threats to health, associated restrictions and economic consequences of the COVID‐19 pandemic have been linked to increases in mental health difficulties for many. Parents, in particular, have experienced many challenges such as having to combine work with home‐schooling their children and other caring responsibilities. Yet, it remai...
Background
A major concern throughout the COVID‐19 pandemic has been on young people's experiences with mental health. In this study we mapped children and adolescents' mental health trajectories over 13 months of the pandemic and examine whether family, peer, and individual‐level factors were associated with trajectory membership.
Methods
This st...
Background
The shift in the last decades to screen-based and increasingly web-based gaming activity has raised concerns about its impact on the development of children and adolescents. Despite decades of research into gaming and related psychosocial effects, the question remains how best to identify what degree or context of gaming may be a cause f...
Human visual attention is readily captured by the social information in scenes. Multiple studies have shown that social areas of interest (AOIs) such as faces and bodies attract more attention than non-social AOIs (e.g., objects or background). However, whether this attentional bias is moderated by the presence (or absence) of a social interaction...
A major concern throughout the COVID-19 pandemic has been the impact on young people’s mental health. The objective of this study was to map children and adolescents’ mental health trajectories over thirteen months of the pandemic and examine whether family, peer, and individual-level factors were associated with different trajectories. The current...
BACKGROUND
The shift in the last decades to screen-based and increasingly online gaming activity has raised concerns about its impact on the development of children and adolescents. Despite decades of research into gaming and related psychosocial effects, the question remains on how to best identify what degree or context of gaming may be a cause f...
Background
The threats to health, associated restrictions and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been linked to increases in mental health difficulties for many. Parents, in particular, have experienced many challenges such as having to combine work with home-schooling their children and other caring responsibilities. Yet, it remai...
Human attention is easily captured by social information in naturalistic scenes, and this “social preference” is already present in infancy. Additionally, recent research suggests that people preferentially attend to, and more quickly detect interacting dyads compared to non-interactors. However, very little work has examined interactive mechanisms...
Human attention is easily captured by social information in naturalistic scenes, a “social bias” that is present since infancy. Additionally, recent research suggests that visual attention to interacting dyads is heightened when compared to non-interactors. However, little work has examined how interactive mechanisms influence attention in complex...
Atypical attention is considered to have an important role in the development of autism. Yet, it remains unclear whether these attentional difficulties are specific to the social domain. This study aimed to examine attentional orienting in autistic and non-autistic adults from and to non-social and social stimuli. We utilised a modified gap–overlap...
Human visual attention is readily captured by the social information in scenes. Multiple studies have shown that social areas of interest (AOIs) such as faces and bodies attract more attention than non-social AOIs (e.g. objects or background). However, whether this attentional bias is moderated by the presence (or absence) of a social interaction r...
Previous research suggests that autistic individuals exhibit atypical hierarchical processing, however, most of these studies focused solely on children. Thus, the main aim of the current study was to investigate the presence of atypical local or global processing in autistic adults using a traditional divided attention task with Navon’s hierarchic...
This study investigated parental influences on preschool children’s healthy and unhealthy snacking in relation to child obesity in a large cross-sectional multinational sample. Parents and 3–5 year-old child dyads (n = 5185) in a kindergarten-based study provided extensive sociodemographic, dietary practice and food intake data. Parental feeding pr...
Proactive and reactive functions of aggression are thought to manifest through different familial and emotional processes, even though they often co-occur. We investigated direct and indirect pathways through which maternal criticism and emotion regulation (ER) difficulties relate to reactive and proactive aggression in adolescence. Further, we exa...
