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- Title
The Role of Self-reports and Behavioral Measures of Interpretation Biases in Children with Varying Levels of Anxiety.
- Authors
Klein, Anke M.; Flokstra, Emmelie; van Niekerk, Rianne; Klein, Steven; Rapee, Ronald M.; Hudson, Jennifer L.; Bögels, Susan M.; Becker, Eni S.; Rinck, Mike
- 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.
- 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
- Publication
Child Psychiatry & Human Development, 2018, Vol 49, Issue 6, p897
- ISSN
0009-398X
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10578-018-0804-x