Cognitive errors, anxiety sensitivity, and anxiety control beliefs: Their unique and specific associations with childhood anxiety symptoms

Behavior Modification

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 174-201

  Weems, Carl F ^a   Costa, Natalie M ^a   Watts, Sarah E ^a   Taylor, Leslie K ^a   Cannon, Melinda F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW ORLEANS   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Anxiety sensitivity; Child and adolescents; Cognition; Cognitive errors; Control

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ANXIETY SENSITIVITY; CHILD; COGNITION; CONCURRENT VALIDITY; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INTERNAL CONSISTENCY; INTERVIEW BIAS; JUVENILE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MEDICAL RESEARCH; UTILIZATION REVIEW;

ADOLESCENT; AGE OF ONSET; ANXIETY; CAREGIVERS; CHILD; COGNITION DISORDERS; CULTURE; DEPRESSION; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ETHNIC GROUPS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; JUDGMENT; MALE; NEUROPSYCHOLOGICAL TESTS; OBSERVER VARIATION; PREDICTIVE VALUE OF TESTS; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; QUESTIONNAIRES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX;

EID: 33846688662     PISSN: 01454455     EISSN: 15524167     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0145445506297016     Document Type: Conference Paper

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