Children's interpretation and avoidant response biases in response to non-salient and salient situations: Relationships with mothers' threat perception and coping expectations

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

Volumn 22, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 371-385

  Micco, Jamie A ^a   Ehrenreich, Jill T ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety disorders; Child anxiety; Information processing; Interpretation bias; Mother child relationships

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; AVOIDANT PERSONALITY DISORDER; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; COPING BEHAVIOR; EXPECTATION; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; MALE; MOTHER; PEDIATRICS; PERCEPTION; SCHOOL CHILD; THINKING; THREAT;

ADAPTATION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; ESCAPE REACTION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MOTHER-CHILD RELATIONS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SOCIAL PERCEPTION;

EID: 40649117985     PISSN: 08876185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2007.03.009     Document Type: Article

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