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- Title
- Child anxiety and the processing of ambiguity
- Related
- Cognitive therapy and research, Vol. 39, Issue 5, (2015), p.669-677
- Funding Body
- ARC
- Grant URL
- http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP1095162
- Grant URL
- http://purl.org/au-research/grants/arc/DP0878609
- DOI
- 10.1007/s10608-015-9689-1
- Publisher
- Springer
- Date
- 2015
- Author/Creator
- Dodd, Helen F
- Author/Creator
- Stuijfzand, Suzannah
- Author/Creator
- Morris, Talia
- Author/Creator
- Hudson, Jennifer L
- Description
- An association between interpretation of ambiguity and anxiety may exist in children, but findings have been equivocal. The present research utilized the Interpretation Generation Questionnaire for Children (IGQ-C), a novel measure that breaks down the processing of ambiguity into three steps: the generation of possible interpretations, the selection of the most likely interpretation and the anticipated emotional response to the ambiguous situation. The IGQ-C was completed by 103 children aged 11–12 years, 28 of whom had a clinical anxiety disorder. There was some evidence for an association between anxiety and: (1) the generation of initial negative interpretations; (2) the generation of a greater number of negative interpretations overall; and (3) the selection of negative responses. These findings were not consistent across measures of anxiety. A more convincing association was found between child anxiety and anticipated emotional response to the ambiguous scenarios, with anxious children anticipating more negative emotion.
- Description
- 9 page(s)
- Subject Keyword
- Children
- Subject Keyword
- Anxiety
- Subject Keyword
- Ambiguity
- Subject Keyword
- Interpretation
- Subject Keyword
- Cognitive bias
- Subject Keyword
- Reappraisal
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Organisation
- Macquarie University. Department of Psychology
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/${Handle}
- Identifier
- mq:40455
- Identifier
- ISSN:0147-5916
- Identifier
- mq-rm-2013013205
- Identifier
- mq_res-se-214647
- Language
- eng
- Reviewed
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