Parent and Child Anxiety Sensitivity: Relationship to Children’s Experimental Pain Responsivity

Tsao, Jennie C.I.; Lü, Qian; Myers, Cynthia D.; Kim, Su C.; Turk, Norman; Zeltzer, Lonnie K.

doi:10.1016/j.jpain.2005.12.004

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“…As with any behavior as complex as pain behavior, the emergence of sex differences in pain after puberty probably results from a dynamic interplay of biologic, 8,22,26 psychological, 15,38 sociocultural, 3,27 and developmental 21,39 factors across childhood and adolescence. Research on developmental factors in gender stereotypes suggests concepts of maleness are more stereotypically framed than concepts of femaleness, 17 boys are punished more often than girls for departing from gendernormative behavior, 6,[10][11][12]19,36 and polarized views of gender increase as young people move through adolescence, with masculinity more strongly connoting the absence of femininity and vice versa.…”

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Sex, Gender, and Age: Contributions to Laboratory Pain Responding in Children and Adolescents

Myers

Tsao²,

Glover

et al. 2006

The Journal of Pain

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Sex, Gender, and Age: Contributions to Laboratory Pain Responding in Children and Adolescents

Myers

Tsao²,

Glover

et al. 2006

The Journal of Pain

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“…In brief [14][15][16], after completing questionnaires, children participated in a series of tasks that involved self-report and behavioral responses to cold, pressure, and heat tasks, with the order of tasks counterbalanced. The three tasks involved immersing the hand in cold water, applying pressure using a weighted lucite point to the finger, and holding the forearm over a radiant heat diode.…”

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“…Participants were recruited through mass mailings, posted advertisements, and classroom presentations. Participants were part of a larger study exploring laboratory pain responses in healthy children [14][15][16].…”

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Relationship of Salivary Alpha Amylase and Cortisol to Social Anxiety in Healthy Children Undergoing Laboratory Pain Tasks

Payne¹,

Hibel²

2014

J Child Adolesc Behav

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Objective-Salivary alpha amylase (sAA) has been shown to be a sensitive and reliable marker of the autonomic nervous system (ANS) response to stress. A link between sAA, cortisol, and social/evaluative stress has been established in youth, but little is known about these relationships in response to other stressors in children, and how social anxiety might moderate these relationships. The current study explored the associations among sAA and salivary cortisol responses to laboratory pain tasks and self-reported social anxiety symptoms in a sample of healthy children.Method-Two hundred thirty-one children (114 girls; 49.4%) with a mean age 12.68 years (SD=3.0; range 7-18) participated in the study. Participants completed self-report questionnaires prior to undergoing a series of laboratory pain tasks involving cold, pressure, and heat pain. Saliva samples were collected upon arrival to the laboratory (pre-task), following the completion of the pain tasks (post-task1), and 20 minutes after the completion of the pain tasks (post-task2).Results-Demographic factors (age, sex, pubertal stage) did not predict either sAA or cortisol levels. However, children reporting higher levels of social anxiety demonstrated significantly higher sAA but not cortisol levels across three salivary collection times, compared to children reporting lower levels of social anxiety. Further, it does not appear that reduced state levels of anxiety before or during the tasks buffer this relationship.Conclusion-These data highlight the possibility of identifying biomarkers of stress that are consistent across time and developmental stage. sAA appears to be a marker of stress response in children with self-reported social anxiety. There may also be a potentially unique relationship of

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“…Several parental factors have been highlighted that may have an impact on their children's anxiety, such as parental anxiety, modelling, negative information transmission, and parental behaviours such as overprotection (e.g., Creswell, Murray, Stacey, & Cooper, 2011;Rapee, 2012). Concerning parental AS, however, mixed results have been obtained: some authors have observed a significant link between parental and child AS (e.g., East, Berman, & Stoppelbein, 2007;Tsao et al, 2005Tsao et al, , 2006, while others have not (e.g., Drake & Kearney, 2008;Silverman & Weems, 1999;van Beek, Perna, Schruers, Muris, & Griez, 2005). Other investigations have focused on the impact of learning experiences within the family environment (Stewart et al, 2001;Watt et al, 1998).…”

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The role of parental anxiety sensitivity and learning experiences in children's anxiety sensitivity

Stassart

Dardenne

Étienne

2017

British J of Dev Psycho

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This study evaluated the impact of the mother's and father's anxiety sensitivity (AS) and learning experiences on children's AS, and the influence of two moderators: the children's femininity orientation and the children's emotional intelligence (EI). The sample comprised 200 non-clinical children, aged 9-13 years, and their parents (mothers and fathers). Results revealed that the effect of parental AS on children's AS is moderated by the children's EI for maternal AS and by their femininity traits for paternal AS. Learning experiences following somatic sensations influenced the children's level of AS. More specifically, special attention by parents following a child's somatic sensations (reinforcement and transmission of information) was associated with high AS in children. Parental reactions of fear following a parent's somatic sensations (modelling) seem to predict higher scores for AS when the link is moderated by the child's femininity orientation. The implications of these findings are discussed.

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Parent and Child Anxiety Sensitivity: Relationship to Children’s Experimental Pain Responsivity

Cited by 58 publications

References 29 publications

Sex, Gender, and Age: Contributions to Laboratory Pain Responding in Children and Adolescents

Sex, Gender, and Age: Contributions to Laboratory Pain Responding in Children and Adolescents

Relationship of Salivary Alpha Amylase and Cortisol to Social Anxiety in Healthy Children Undergoing Laboratory Pain Tasks

The role of parental anxiety sensitivity and learning experiences in children's anxiety sensitivity

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