ReviewClinical child and family psychology review2020
Fearful Temperament and the Risk for Child and Adolescent Anxiety: The Role of Attention Biases and Effortful Control.
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- Important Mechanisms in the Development of Anxiety in Children with ADHD: The Role of Associated Features of ADHD and Interpersonal Functioning.Child psychiatry and human development · 2026Review
- Early Childhood Cumulative Risk and Temperament Predict Preadolescent Appraisal and Coping and Adolescent Psychopathology.Clinical psychological science : a journal of the Association for Psychological Science · 2026Article
- Supportive parenting moderates the link between parents' and children's internalizing symptoms in families of color.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2026Article
- Co-Changes and Mutual Influences of Fearful Temperament, Task Switching, and Maternal Intrusiveness in Early Childhood.Developmental psychobiology · 2025Article
- Neurodevelopmental Pathways from Temperamental Fear to Anxiety.Current topics in behavioral neurosciences · 2025Review
- The Influence of Temperament, Theory of Mind, Inhibitory Control, and Prosocial Behavior on Child Anxiety Symptoms in the First Five Years of Life.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2025Article
- Examining Conduct Problems in a Community Sample during Middle Childhood: The Role of Frontal EEG Asymmetry, Temperament, and Working Memory.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2024Article
- A biomarker discovery framework for childhood anxiety.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Neonatal amygdala resting-state functional connectivity and socio-emotional development in very preterm children.Brain communications · 2022Article
- Inhibitory Control Moderates the Association Between Fear and Attention Bias to Snakes in Middle Childhood.Cognitive developmentArticle
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Abstract
Fearful temperament represents one of the most robust predictors of child and adolescent anxiety; however, not all children with fearful temperament unvaryingly develop anxiety. Diverse processes resulting from the interplay between automatic processing (i.e., attention bias) and controlled processing (i.e., effortful control) drive the trajectories toward more adaptive or maladaptive directions. In this review, we examine the associations between fearful temperament, attention bias, and anxiety, as well as the moderating effect of effortful control. Based on the reviewed literature, we propose a two-mechanism developmental model of attention bias that underlies the association between fearful temperament and anxiety. We propose that the sub-components of effortful control (i.e., attentional control and inhibitory control) play different roles depending on individuals' temperaments, initial automatic biases, and goal priorities. Our model may help resolve some of the mixed findings and conflicts in the current literature. It may also advance our knowledge regarding the cognitive mechanisms linking fearful temperament and anxiety, as well as facilitate the continuing efforts in identifying and intervening with children who are at risk. Finally, we conclude the review with a discussion on the existing limitations and then propose questions for future research.
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