ArticleJournal of anxiety disorders2019
Effortful control, interpretation biases, and child anxiety symptom severity in a sample of children with anxiety disorders.
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- Respiratory Sinus Arrhythmia, Effortful Control, and Child Social Anxiety Symptoms.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- Assessing anxiety problems in a community sample during toddlerhood: The impact of child temperament and maternal intrusiveness.Infant behavior & development · 2024Article
- Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Negative Emotionality and Child Anxiety and Depressive Symptom Severity in Children with Anxiety Disorders.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Fearful Temperament and Child Social Anxiety Symptoms: Clarifying the Influence of Maternal Punitive Responses.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Psychosocial and biological risk factors of anxiety disorders in adolescents: a TRAILS report.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2021Article
- Interpretation biases and depressive symptoms among anxiety-disordered children: The role of individual differences in respiratory sinus arrhythmia.Developmental psychobiology · 2021Article
- The explanatory role of anxiety sensitivity in the association between effortful control and child anxiety and depressive symptoms.Cognitive behaviour therapy · 2020Article
- Parental Emotion-Focused Behaviors Moderate the Relationship Between Perceptual Sensitivity and Fear Reactivity in Anxious Children.Child psychiatry and human development · 2020Article
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introductionEffortful control-the ability to inhibit impulsive reactions in favor of more adaptive responses-is negatively related to child anxiety severity. One potential explanation is that greater effortful control may "slow down" automatic, threat-laden interpretations, thereby lowering children's anxiety. The present investigation tested this hypothesis by examining associations between effortful control (and its subcomponents) and anxiety symptom severity, mediated by interpretation biases, in a diverse sample of clinically anxious youth.
methodParticipants (N = 105; M
resultsSignificant indirect effects were found for effortful control, attentional control, and inhibitory control on child self-reported anxiety severity by way of self-reported (but not behaviorally-indexed) interpretation biases. Models predicting behaviorally-indexed child anxiety severity were not significant. DISCUSSION: Greater effortful control may result in enhanced attentional capacities that allow children to assess automatic cognitions more objectively, potentially lowering their anxiety. Future work should evaluate whether targeting malleable temperamental constructs, such as effortful control, leads to clinically meaningful reductions in interpretation biases and child anxiety symptoms.
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