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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
Threat perception abnormalities in children: The role of anxiety disorders symptoms, chronic anxiety, and state anxiety
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 17, No. 3, Year 2003
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Description
This study investigated the relative contribution of general (trait) anxiety and state anxiety to threat perception abnormalities in nonreferred children aged 8-13 years (N=299). Children were first asked to complete self-report measures of anxiety disorders symptoms and chronic anxiety. Next, they were individually interviewed using an ambiguous story paradigm from which a number of threat perception indexes were derived. Just before the interview started, children were asked to fill out a measure of state anxiety. Results showed that high levels of general anxiety (as indexed by anxiety disorders symptoms and chronic anxiety) were significantly related to increased threat perception and lower threat thresholds. High levels of state anxiety were also associated with increased threat perception and lower threat thresholds. Regression analyses indicated that general anxiety and state anxiety both accounted for a unique proportion of the variance in threat perception abnormalities, although the contribution of general anxiety was in most cases substantially larger than that of state anxiety. Finally, no support was found for the notion that threat perception abnormalities are the result of the conjoint influence of general anxiety and state anxiety. © 2002 Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.
Authors & Co-Authors
Muris, Peter E.H.M.
Netherlands, Maastricht
Universiteit Maastricht
Rapee, Ronald M.
Australia, Macquarie Park
The Faculty of Medicine, Health and Human Sciences
Meesters, Cor M.G.
Netherlands, Maastricht
Universiteit Maastricht
Statistics
Citations: 98
Authors: 3
Affiliations: 2
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S0887-6185(02)00199-8
ISSN:
08876185
Research Areas
Maternal And Child Health
Mental Health