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The Role of Self-reports and Behavioral Measures of Interpretation Biases in Children with Varying Levels of Anxiety.
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Child Psychiatry & Human Development . Dec2018, Vol. 49 Issue 6, p897-905. 9p. 2 Charts. - Publication Year :
- 2018
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Abstract
- We investigated the role of self-reports and behavioral measures of interpretation biases and their content-specificity in children with varying levels of spider fear and/or social anxiety. In total, 141 selected children from a community sample completed an interpretation bias task with scenarios that were related to either spider threat or social threat. Specific interpretation biases were found; only spider-related interpretation bias and self-reported spider fear predicted unique variance in avoidance behavior on the Behavior Avoidance Task for spiders. Likewise, only social-threat related interpretation bias and self-reported social anxiety predicted anxiety during the Social Speech Task. These findings support the hypothesis that fearful children display cognitive biases that are specific to particular fear-relevant stimuli. Clinically, this insight might be used to improve treatments for anxious children by targeting content-specific interpretation biases related to individual disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
- Subjects :
- *CHILDREN
*BEHAVIORAL assessment of children
*PSYCHOLOGICAL stress
*FEAR
*SOCIAL anxiety
*ANXIETY disorders
*SOCIAL phobia
*ANXIETY
*COMPARATIVE studies
*RESEARCH methodology
*MEDICAL cooperation
*PHOBIAS
*PSYCHOLOGICAL tests
*RESEARCH
*SELF-evaluation
*SOCIAL participation
*EVALUATION research
*PSYCHOLOGICAL factors
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Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 0009398X
- Volume :
- 49
- Issue :
- 6
- Database :
- Academic Search Index
- Journal :
- Child Psychiatry & Human Development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 132460415
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-018-0804-x