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Early-Emerging Behavioral Inhibition: Contextual And Sex Differences In Linkages With Anxiety Vulnerability, Meagan E. Scott
Early-Emerging Behavioral Inhibition: Contextual And Sex Differences In Linkages With Anxiety Vulnerability, Meagan E. Scott
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The current study was designed to examine behavioral inhibition (BI) as a risk factor for anxiety disorders and to investigate whether contextual and sex differences moderate the association between BI and anxiety risk. Childhood BI was assessed in a sample of 409 3-year-old children (200 boys, Mage = 3.43, SD = .30) using standardized laboratory observations. Parental history of anxiety was assessed using semi-structured clinical interviews. In multivariate models, childhood BI was associated with a maternal history of social anxiety disorder (SAD). Gender was found to moderate the association between BI and maternal history of SAD, as boys’, but …
Behavioral Inhibition And Parent Reported Anxiety Symptoms In Early Childhood: Moderation By Child Sex, Michelle Dzialakiewicz
Behavioral Inhibition And Parent Reported Anxiety Symptoms In Early Childhood: Moderation By Child Sex, Michelle Dzialakiewicz
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Behavioral Inhibition (BI) is a temperamental trait that refers to the avoidance and withdrawal from novel situations, objects, and people. It is considered a risk marker for later anxiety disorders. However, for BI to be a true risk marker it must predate the disorder onset and it should be associated with other well-known risk markers, such as early emerging symptoms. The majority of research exploring BI as a risk marker has largely utilized parent- or self- report measures of BI and has focused on middle to late childhood and adolescence. Further, BI has been linked with social anxiety specifically as …