ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2019
Early Childhood Predictors of Anxiety in Early Adolescence.
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- Prospective Association between Childhood Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety: a Meta-Analysis.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Pooled it
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- Four distinct peer interaction variables as moderators of the fearful temperament-anxiety association, using data from the Generation R Study.JCPP advances · 2025Article
- Identifying Risk and Protective Factors Impacting the Clinical Outcomes of Subthreshold Anxiety in Early Adolescents: Insights From the ABCD Study.Depression and anxiety · 2025Article
- Does dose matter? Parental attendance in a preventive intervention for anxious and sad children.BMC psychology · 2024Article
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- Parent-Child Attachment Security and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence: The Mediating Roles of Gratitude and Forgiveness.Child psychiatry and human development · 2024Article
- A parent-report measure of children's anxiety: psychometric properties of the Macquarie Anxiety Behavioural Scale (MABS) in a Chinese sample of preschool children.BMC psychology · 2023Article
- Socioeconomic resources moderate the relationship between maternal prenatal obsessive-compulsive symptoms and infant negative affectivity.Infant behavior & development · 2023Article
- Changes in UK pre-schooler's mental health symptoms over the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic: Data from Co-SPYCE study.JCPP advances · 2023Article
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- COVID-19 History Increases the Anxiety of Mothers with Children in Intensive Care during the Pandemic in Turkey.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
- Bidirectional and interactive effects of child temperament and parenting in early childhood on the trajectory of social anxiety in adolescence.Depression and anxiety · 2022Article
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- Validation of the Italian Version of the Behavioral Inhibition Questionnaire (BIQ) for Preschool Children.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Adventurous Play as a Mechanism for Reducing Risk for Childhood Anxiety: A Conceptual Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2021Article
- Parent- and Child-Factors in Specific Phobias: The Interplay of Overprotection and Negative Affectivity.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2020Article
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Abstract
This longitudinal study examined a multitude of early childhood predictors of anxiety symptoms and disorders over an 8-year period. The purpose of the study was to identify early life predictors of anxiety across childhood and early adolescence in a sample of at-risk children. The sample included 202 preschool children initially identified as behaviorally inhibited or uninhibited between the ages of 3 years 2 months and 4 years 5 months. Temperament and familial environment variables were assessed using observation and parent report at baseline. Anxiety symptoms and disorders were assessed using questionnaires and diagnostic interviews at baseline (age 4), and at age 6, 9 and 12 years. In line with our hypotheses, the findings showed that preschool children were more likely to experience anxiety symptoms and disorders over time i) when the child was inhibited, ii) when there was a history of maternal anxiety disorders or iii) when mothers displayed high levels of overinvolvement. Further, the study identified a significant interaction effect between temperament and maternal overvinvolvement such that behaviorally inhibited preschoolers had higher anxiety symptoms at age 12, only in the presence of maternal overinvolvement at age 4. The increased risk of anxiety in inhibited children was mitigated when mothers demonstrated low levels of overinvolvement at age 4. This study provides evidence of both additive and interactive effects of temperament and family environment on the development of anxiety and provides important information for the identification of families who will most likely benefit from targeted early intervention.
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