CoChat
Sign Up
Cited by 42Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive ProcessesChild and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional DevelopmentPsychological Treatments and Assessments

Contingency-competence-control? Related beliefs and symptoms of anxiety and depression in a young adolescent sample

Muris, Peter, Schouten, Erik, Meesters, Cor, Gijsbers, Hanneke·2003·Child Psychiatry and Human Development
DOI 10.1023/a:1023040430308
Open this paper in CoChat — free account

Abstract

The present study examined the connection between contingency-competence-control-related beliefs, on the one hand, and anxiety and depression, on the other hand, in a large sample of young adolescents aged 10 to 14 years (N = 214). Participants completed measures of perceived contingency, competence, and control, as well as a questionnaire assessing symptoms of common anxiety disorders and major depressive disorder. Results showed that contingency-competence-control-related beliefs were intercorrelated and that these beliefs, in turn, were significantly associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression. Structural equation modeling provided support for a model in which perceived contingency and perceived competence predicted perceived control and in which perceived competence (anxiety and depression) and perceived control (depression only), in turn, predicted symptoms of psychopathology. A prospective test of this model indicated that none of the contingency-competence-control-related beliefs was able to predict symptoms of anxiety and depression at 4-weeks follow-up. However, data also demonstrated that perceived competence significantly contributed to the subjective experience of anxiety and depression on both occasions.

Integrity signals

Registry

Crossref · 10.1023/a:1023040430308

Cites

27 of 27 references verified0 citation errors · 0 not checkable

Statistics

Recomputing p-values needs the paper’s full text.

Claims the paper makes

This paper’s full text isn’t openly available, so its claims and self-check weren’t run. The registry and citation checks still apply.

Claims other papers make about this one

Each is checked against this paper’s own text: does it say what the citing paper says it does?

  • There is a growing body of empirical support for the theory that lowered child perceived competence is related to higher levels of anxiety.

    “Likewise, there is a growing body of empirical support for the theory that lowered child perceived competence is related to higher levels of anxiety (Muris et al., 2003; Teachman and Allen, 2007).”

    From A Systematic Review of “Helicopter Parenting” and Its Relationship With Anxiety and Depression (2022) · cites this paper as Muris et al., 2003

Cites

Flagged first, then by citations

Cited by

Sorted by citations

Related

Authors
Muris, P., Schouten, E., Meesters, C., & Gijsbers, H.
Affiliations
Maastricht University (NL)
Corresponding author
Muris, Peter
ORCID
Venue
Child Psychiatry and Human Development
Publisher
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
Published
2003-06
Volume
33
Issue
4
Pages
325-339
ISSN
  • 0009-398X (ISSN-L)
  • 1573-3327
DOI
10.1023/a:1023040430308
OpenAlex
W1553310955
Cited by
42
References
27
Citations by year
2026: 1 · 2024: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 1 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 3 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
FWCI
2.82
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
Locations
  • Child Psychiatry & Human Development (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychological Treatments and Assessments
Keywords
competence beliefs, control beliefs, perceived control, perceived competence, anxiety symptoms, depressive symptoms, early adolescents, psychopathology, prospective prediction
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Child, Culture, Depression, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Self Concept, Self Efficacy

About these checks

Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.

Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.

Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.

What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›

Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review