Ewing et al (2016) Cognitive biases in children at risk of developing anxiety disorders.pdf (398.98 kB)
No significant evidence of cognitive biases for emotional stimuli in children at-risk of developing anxiety disorders
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posted on 2023-06-08, 23:56 authored by Donna L Ewing, Suzanne Dash, Ellen J Thompson, Cassie Hazell, Zoe Hughes, Kathryn LesterKathryn Lester, Samantha Cartwright-HattonSamantha Cartwright-HattonThis paper explores whether the increased vulnerability of children of anxious parents to develop anxiety disorders may be partially explained by these children having increased cognitive biases towards threat compared with children of non-anxious parents. Parents completed questionnaires about their child’s anxiety symptoms. Children aged 5–9 (n = 85) participated in two cognitive bias tasks: 1) an emotion recognition task, and 2) an ambiguous situations questionnaire. For the emotion recognition task, there were no significant differences between at-risk children and children of non-anxious parents in their cognitive bias scores for reaction times or for accuracy in identifying angry or happy facial expressions. In addition, there were no significant differences between at-risk children and children of non-anxious parents in the number of threat interpretations made for the ambiguous situations questionnaire. It is possible that these cognitive biases only become present subsequent to the development of an anxiety disorder, or only in older at-risk children.
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Anxiety Symptoms Prevention Investigation; National Institute for Health Research; CDF-2010-03-36
Medical Research Council; MR/J011762/1
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Journal of Abnormal Child PsychologyISSN
0091-0627Publisher
Springer VerlagExternal DOI
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7Volume
44Page range
1243-1252Department affiliated with
- Primary Care and Public Health Publications
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2016-01-11First Open Access (FOA) Date
2016-01-11First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2016-01-11Usage metrics
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