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Attention biases to threat and behavioral inhibition in early childhood shape adolescent social withdrawal

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Pérez-Edgar, Koraly, Bar-Haim, Yair, McDermott, Jennifer Martin, Chronis-Tuscano, Andrea, Pine, Daniel S., Fox, Nathan A.·2010·Emotion

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Behavioral inhibition (BI) is a temperament characterized in young children by a heightened sensitivity to novelty, social withdrawal, and anxious behaviors. For many children, these social difficulties dissipate over time. For others, patterns of social withdrawal continue into adolescence. Over time, attention biases to threat may influence the stability of BI and its association with social withdrawal, ultimately modulating the risk for anxiety disorders in BI children. However, we know relatively little about the cognitive processes that accompany BI and shape later socio-emotional functioning. We examined the relations among BI in childhood, attention biases to threat in adolescence, and adolescent social withdrawal in a longitudinal study (N = 126, Mean age = 15 years). As has been reported in anxious adults, adolescents who were behaviorally inhibited as toddlers and young children showed heightened attention bias to threat. In addition, attention bias to threat moderated the relation between childhood BI and adolescent social withdrawal.

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Authors
Pérez-Edgar, K., Bar-Haim, Y., McDermott, J. M., Chronis-Tuscano, A., Pine, D. S., & Fox, N. A.
Affiliations
  • University of Wisconsin–Madison (US)
  • University of Maryland, College Park (US)
  • National Institutes of Health (US)
Venue
Emotion
Published
2010
Volume
10
Issue
3
Pages
349-357
ISSN
  • 1528-3542 (ISSN-L)
  • 1931-1516
OpenAlex
W2138639435
Cited by
295
References
74
Citations by year
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FWCI
16.81
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
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  • Emotion (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
  • Europe PMC (PubMed Central) (acceptedVersion)
  • PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
Funders
  • National Institute of Mental Health (MH073569)
  • National Institutes of Health (MH074454; HD17899)
  • National Alliance for Research on Schizophrenia and Depression
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Child and Animal Learning Development
Keywords
behavioral inhibition, attention bias to threat, early childhood temperament, anxiety disorders, moderation, social-emotional development, novelty seeking
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety, Attention, Child, Child Development, Emotions, Facial Expression, Fear, Female, Humans, Inhibition, Psychological, Longitudinal Studies, Male, Psychiatric Status Rating Scales, Social Alienation, Temperament, Adolescent Development

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