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The development of anxiety: The role of control in the early environment.
Abstract
Current developments in cognitive and emotion theory suggest that anxiety plays a rather central role in negative emotions. This article reviews findings in the area of anxiety and depression, helplessness, locus of control, explanatory style, animal learning, biology, parenting, attachment theory, and childhood stress and resilience to articulate a model of the environmental influences on the development of anxiety. Evidence from a variety of sources suggests that early experience with diminished control may foster a cognitive style characterized by an increased probability of interpreting or processing subsequent events as out of one's control, which may represent a psychological vulnerability for anxiety. Implications for research are discussed.
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“destructive interparental interactions are stressful for adolescents to observe (Davies et al. 2007; El-Sheikh 1994), provide children with poor models of effective coping (Chorpita and Barlow 1998), and threaten children’s safety and security within the family system (Davies and Cummings 1994).”
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“To understand the onset of fear and anxiety, the perception of control over stimuli that signal danger is essential (Chorpita and Barlow, 1998).”
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“Social learning theory and research show that persistent exposure to relatively uncontrollable social stressors instills a diminished sense of agency for coping with future stressors (Chorpita & Barlow, 1998)”
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Metadata
- Authors
- Chorpita, B. F., & Barlow, D. H.
- Affiliations
- University of Hawaiʻi at Mānoa (US)
- Venue
- Psychological Bulletin
- Published
- 1998-07
- Volume
- 124
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 3-21
- ISSN
- 0033-2909 (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1455
- OpenAlex
- W1971570247
- Cited by
- 1,382
- References
- 212
- Citations by year
- 2026: 27 · 2025: 51 · 2024: 33 · 2023: 52 · 2022: 41 · 2021: 69 · 2020: 53 · 2019: 64 · 2018: 58 · 2017: 52 · 2016: 57 · 2015: 74 · 2014: 82 · 2013: 77 · 2012: 78
- FWCI
- 27.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Psychological Bulletin (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 › Social Psychology › Attachment and Relationship Dynamics
- Keywords
- anxiety development, locus of control, early life environment, helplessness, attributional style, attachment theory, parenting, childhood stress, resilience, depression, psychological vulnerability, animal learning, cognitive style
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Adult, Anxiety, Child, Child, Preschool, Depression, Female, Helplessness, Learned, Humans, Infant, Internal-External Control, Male, Object Attachment, Personality Development, Social Environment
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