ArticleChild development2021
Developmental associations between risk-taking and anxiety symptoms across ages 8-12 years.
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- The use of neuropsychological tasks to evaluate self-regulation in depression and anxiety during adolescence: a scoping review.Acta neuropsychiatrica · 2026Article
- Neural mechanisms of uncertain decision-making in anxious adolescents: an EEG study based on the balloon analogue risk task.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2026Article
- Risk avoidance and social anxiety in adolescence: Examination of event-related potentials and theta-dynamics on the Balloon Risk Avoidance Task.Brain and cognition · 2024Article
- The relationship between mental health and risky decision-making in children and adolescents: a scoping review.BMC psychiatry · 2024Article
- Reciprocal associations between affective decision-making and mental health in adolescence.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Developmental associations between risk-taking and anxiety symptoms across ages 8-12 years.Child development · 2021Article
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Abstract
This study explored the transactional association between anxiety symptoms and risk-avoidance in Dutch elementary schoolchildren (N = 1200; 50% girls) across ages 8-12. Anxiety symptoms were obtained using self-, peer-, and teacher-reports. Risk-avoidance was measured using the Balloon Analogue Risk Task-Youth Version. Random-intercept cross-lagged panel models showed that, across informants, increases in anxiety symptoms predicted decreases in risk-taking. Apart from minor exceptions, this effect was similar across sexes. For peer-reports, the reverse path from decreases in risk-taking to increased anxiety was also found. Overall, this study gives insight into the developmental link between symptoms of anxiety and risk-avoidance which is important for early signaling and prevention as well as for our understanding of the consequences of childhood anxiety symptoms.
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