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SynthesisClinical child and family psychology review2016

Emotional Competence and Anxiety in Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review.

Brittany L Mathews, Amanda J Koehn, Mahsa Movahed Abtahi, Kathryn A Kerns

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Synthesis in Clinical child and family psychology review, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 30 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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30 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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  4. The Interplay of Familial and Individual Risk in Predicting Clinical Improvements in Pediatric Anxiety Disorders.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2018
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  8. Transdiagnostic correlates of family accommodation in anxious youth.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2025
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  20. Adversity and Emotional Functioning.Affective science · 2021
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5 · Who and what money

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4 authors.

Brittany L MathewsKent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent Hall, Kent, OH, 4424, USA. bmathew6@kent.edu.
Amanda J KoehnKent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent Hall, Kent, OH, 4424, USA.
Mahsa Movahed AbtahiKent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent Hall, Kent, OH, 4424, USA.
Kathryn A KernsKent State University, 600 Hilltop Dr., Kent Hall, Kent, OH, 4424, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Anxiety is conceptualized as a state of negative emotional arousal that is accompanied by concern about future threat. The purpose of this meta-analytic review was to evaluate the evidence of associations between emotional competence and anxiety by examining how specific emotional competence domains (emotion recognition, emotion expression, emotion awareness, emotion understanding, acceptance of emotion, emotional self-efficacy, sympathetic/empathic responses to others' emotions, recognition of how emotion communication and self-presentation affect relationships, and emotion regulatory processes) relate to anxiety in childhood and adolescence. A total of 185 studies were included in a series of meta-analyses (N's ranged from 573 to 25,711). Results showed that anxious youth are less effective at expressing (r = -0.15) and understanding emotions (r = -0.20), less aware of (r = -0.28) and less accepting of their own emotions (r = -0.49), and report less emotional self-efficacy (r = -0.36). More anxious children use more support-seeking coping strategies (r = 0.07) and are more likely to use less adaptive coping strategies including avoidant coping (r = 0.18), externalizing (r = 0.18), and maladaptive cognitive coping (r = 0.34). Emotion acceptance and awareness, emotional self-efficacy, and maladaptive cognitive coping yielded the largest effect sizes. Some effects varied with children's age. The findings inform intervention and treatment programs of anxiety in youth and identify several areas for future research.

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AdolescentAnxietyChildEmotionsHumansAnxietyEmotionEmotion competenceEmotion regulation

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PMID27072682

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