Anxiety and Reassurance Seeking Behaviour in Children
Erin Orr
Abstract:<p>The purpose of the current work was to explore excessive reassurance seeking (ERS), a behaviour that has been largely understudied in children, as it relates to anxiety. In Study 1, a questionnaire that comprehensively assesses ERS in children with anxiety was developed and validated. This new questionnaire fills an important gap in the literature, as existing ERS measures for children are limited to a single type of ERS behaviour, despite research showing that other types of ERS are common and appear… Show more
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