Interpretation biases in the intergenerational transmission of worry: A path analysis

Păsărelu, Costina-Ruxandra; Dobrean, Anca; Balázsi, Róbert; Podină, Ioana R.; Mogoaşe, Cristina

doi:10.24193/jebp.2017.1.3

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“…For instance, girls compared to boys tended to generate more adaptive responses and better problem-solving solutions to ambiguous hypothetical scenarios. Finally, a more recent study investigated the various pathways of worry transmission from mothers to their offspring (9-17-year-olds) via interpretation biases (Pasarelu et al 2017). The study demonstrated that worry in youth was directly associated with interpretation biases towards ambiguous scenarios and maternal worry.…”

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A Cognitive Model of Pathological Worry in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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2020

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Worry is common in children and adolescents, yet some youth experience excessive worries that persist over time and cause significant distress. Whilst the literature on worry and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) in adults is well established, relatively less is known about the cognitive mechanisms underlying child and adolescent worry. An influential cognitive model of adult pathological worry (Hirsch and Matthews in Behav Res Therapy 50:636-646,

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A Cognitive Model of Pathological Worry in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

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2020

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“…The parent report and self-report of other well-validated questionnaires were used to assess children and adolescents’ psychopathology: the Penn State Worry Questionnaire, child- and parent-version (PSWQ-C/P; Chorpita et al, 1997), the Social Anxiety Scale for adolescents (SAS-A; La Greca & Lopez, 1998), the Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory for children (SPAI-C; Beidel et al, 1995), the empirically-based syndromes scales of the Child Behavioral Checklist (CBCL; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2004) and Youth Self-Report (YSR; Achenbach & Rescorla, 2004), the Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale (CATS; Schniering & Rapee, 2002), and the Positive and Negative Affect Schedule (PANAS; Watson et al, 1988). These instruments were previously used with Romanian samples (Păsărelu & Dobrean, 2015; Păsărelu et al, 2015; Păsărelu, Dobrean, Balazsi, Podina, et al, 2017; Robe et al, 2021). See Supplementary Material for an extensive description of each scale (https://data.mendeley.com/datasets/n8gpdjzh2t/1).…”

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Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance Across Age, Gender, and Clinical Status of the Screen for Children Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders

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Abstract. The purpose of this study was to examine evidence of reliability, validity, and equity, for the Romanian version of The Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), the 41-item child- (1,106 children and adolescents ranging from 9 to 16 years old) and parent-ratings (485 parents). Both versions of the instrument showed moderate to high internal consistency, with most subscales reaching acceptable levels. Results showed support for the original five-factor structure of the scale. Positive correlations with other measures of anxiety symptoms, such as The Penn State Worry Questionnaire, The Social Anxiety Scale for Adolescents, The Children’s Automatic Thoughts Scale, whereas weak correlations with the syndrome scales for rule-breaking and aggressive behavior of the Youth Self-Report, respectively, Child Behavioral Checklist have demonstrated similar construct validity for the Romanian version of the scale as compared to the original one. Also, strict measurement invariance across age, gender, and clinical status was established. The current research provides evidence of reliability, validity, and equity for SCARED, arguing for its utility as a screening instrument for anxiety symptoms. Implications for theory, assessment, and future research are discussed.

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“…This may be explained by the mixed findings both in earlier studies and in the more recent evidence (summarized in Subar & Rozenman, 2021 ). Some recent studies provided support for this link (Păsărelu et al, 2017 ; Podina et al, 2013 ) whereas others did not (Neil et al, 2019 ; Ooi et al, 2015 ). Moreover, the meta-analytic evidence for similarities in threat interpretations of parents and children must be cautiously evaluated in light of several limitations, including the relatively small number of available empirical studies, which precludes firm conclusions on this link.…”

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Intergenerational Transmission of Anxious Information Processing Biases: An Updated Conceptual Model

Aktar

2022

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Anxiety disorders are globally one of the most prevalent and disabling forms of psychopathology in adults and children. Having a parent with an anxiety disorder multiplies the risk of anxiety disorders in the offspring, although the specific mechanisms and processes that play a role in this intergenerational transmission remain largely unknown. According to information processing theories, threat-related biases in cognitive processing are a causal mechanism in the development and maintenance of anxiety. These theories propose that individuals with anxiety are more likely to cognitively process novel stimuli in their environment as threatening. Creswell and colleagues proposed a theoretical model that highlighted the role of these cognitive biases as a mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety (Creswell et al., in Hadwin, Field (eds) Information processing biases and anxiety: a developmental perspective, Wiley, pp 279–295, 2010). This model postulated significant associations between (1) parents’ and children’s threat-related cognitive biases (2) parents’ threat-related cognitive biases in their own and their child’s environment, (3) parents’ threat-related cognitive biases and parenting behaviors that convey anxiety risk to the offspring (e.g., modeling of fear, and verbal threat information transmission), and (4) parenting behaviors and child threat-related biases. This theoretical review collated the recent empirical work testing these four core hypotheses of the model. Building on the reviewed empirical work, an updated conceptual model focusing on threat-related attention and interpretation is proposed. This updated model incorporates the links between cognition and anxiety in parents and children and addresses the potential bidirectional nature of parent–child influences.

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Interpretation biases in the intergenerational transmission of worry: A path analysis

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A Cognitive Model of Pathological Worry in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

A Cognitive Model of Pathological Worry in Children and Adolescents: A Systematic Review

Factor Structure and Measurement Invariance Across Age, Gender, and Clinical Status of the Screen for Children Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders

Intergenerational Transmission of Anxious Information Processing Biases: An Updated Conceptual Model

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