A developmental analysis of self‐reported fears in late childhood through mid‐adolescence: social‐evaluative fears on the rise?

Westenberg, P. Michiel; Drewes, Martine J.; Goedhart, Arnold W.; Siebelink, Berend M.; Treffers, Philip D. A.

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2004.00239.x

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“…This is consistent with the notion that adolescents are particularly sensitive to concerns about social evaluation (see Field & Davey, 2001;Westenberg et al, 2004) and thus should be particularly responsive to negative information about social situations. It should be noted, however, that the affective priming task could not differentiate between effects of positive and negative information on implicit attitudes since the only contrast measured in that task was between congruent and incongruent trials.…”

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The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations

Lawson

Banerjee

Field

2007

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations

Lawson

Banerjee

Field

2007

Behaviour Research and Therapy

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“…Conversely, fears of physical danger and punishment decrease with age in community samples [51]. The ability to perceive physical symptoms as a signal of anxiety is also age-related [52].…”

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“…Children may also have greater difficulty than adults consciously re-allocating attention [49] and addressing biases using effortful control [50,51]. Conversely, fears of physical danger and punishment decrease with age in community samples [51].…”

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Cognitive findings in childhood anxiety: Translations for clinical practice

Manassis¹

2013

Translational Neuroscience

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IntroductionIn the past decade, the literature on cognition in anxious children has expanded rapidly. New To ensure a thorough review of relevant findings, a search of PubMed was undertaken using the search words "cognition", "anxiety", and "children". As this search yielded several hundred papers, only those published within the past 10 years were retrieved.Key citations within these retrieved papers were also obtained, including some from the psychological literature. Thus, this paper represents a selective rather than exhaustive review with emphasis on recent findings. All COGNITIVE FINDINGS IN CHILDHOOD ANXIETY: TRANSLATIONS FOR CLINICAL PRACTICE AbstractBackground: The study of cognition in anxious children (i.e., those with anxiety disorders and those with high trait anxiety) is a burgeoning field. Cognitive biases towards encoding threatening information, interpreting stimuli as threatening, and selecting avoidant responses have been found to affect these children, and in some cases their parents too. These biases as well as certain cognitive abilities and deficits have been related to childhood anxiety and its treatment. Given the plethora of recent findings, implications for the practicing clinician are not always obvious. Methods: Using a review of recent medical literature, this paper summarizes key findings and examines potential links to clinical practice. Results: The need to appreciate the reciprocal relationship between anxiety and cognition is highlighted (i.e., anxiety can contribute to cognitive biases and deficits, but cognitive problems can also contribute to anxiety). Cognitive factors can also predict poor response to traditional treatments, and thus suggest modifications of treatment that may benefit some children. Treatments focused on cognitive biases are gaining popularity, but their role in the treatment of anxious children and in relation to other anxiety treatments merits further study. Conclusion: Recent cognitive findings enhance our clinical understanding of anxious children, and may suggest ways of tailoring evidence-based treatments to best meet the needs of children with diverse cognitive profiles and developmental needs.

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“…The shared variance with social anxiety, although probably still considerable, is likely to be somewhat smaller. However, we had a more important reason to opt for this index instead of general anxiety: social anxiety is known to increase in middle and late childhood, whereas general fears tend to decrease (Westenberg, Drewes, Goedhart, Siebelink, & Treffers, 2004). Around the age of ten}the age group under study in the present experiment}is social anxiety therefore expected to be the more prominent of the two.…”

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Emotions and self‐esteem as indicators of somatic complaints in children

Terwogt

Rieffe

Miers

et al. 2006

Infant and Child Development

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The literature on somatic complaints in children without a clear physical medical cause often demonstrates connections with various psychological factors, such as negative emotions and problems handling them, poor self-image, and coping potential. We entered these elements into a structural model to elucidate the relationships among them and tested it on 330 children (mean age 10 years and 9 months). The results showed that mood balance contributed most to the prediction of self-reported somatic complaints. Moreover, mood (in combination with anxiety and depression problems) had an indirect impact on children's somatic complaints by influencing self-esteem. The influence and position of coping was less clear. The results are discussed in terms of the 'symptom perception theory'.

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A developmental analysis of self‐reported fears in late childhood through mid‐adolescence: social‐evaluative fears on the rise?

Abstract: The expression of social evaluation fears during adolescence appears not atypical and might be a corollary of socio-cognitive maturation. At the same time, the natural presence of those fears during adolescence appears to constitute a vulnerability for developing a social anxiety disorder.

Cited by 218 publications

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The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations

The effects of verbal information on children's fear beliefs about social situations

Cognitive findings in childhood anxiety: Translations for clinical practice

Emotions and self‐esteem as indicators of somatic complaints in children

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