Cognitive processing bias of children in a real life stress situation and a neutral situation

Trait anxiety fails to show any relationship with threat-related cognitive processing bias in children, in spite of their state anxiety. Two related studies show that high and low anxious children exhibit high priority towards information processing related to physical harm. They show processing bias for threatening information under nonstressful conditions, while such bias is absent under stressful conditions. High anxious girls exhibit processing bias for threatening information, which gradually diminishes in the presence of stressor.