Attentional threat avoidance and familial risk are independently associated with childhood anxiety disorders

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines

Volumn 54, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 678-685

  Brown, Hannah M ^a   McAdams, Tom A ^a   Lester, Kathryn J ^a   Goodman, Robert ^a   Clark, David M ^b   Eley, Thalia C ^a  

^a KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Anxiety; attention; children; familial risk

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; CHILD; COLOR VISION; EMOTION; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION; GENETICS; GENOTYPE ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; HARM REDUCTION; HUMAN; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; REACTION TIME; RECEPTIVE FIELD; TWINS;

ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CHILD; COLOR PERCEPTION; DISEASES IN TWINS; EMOTIONS; FACIAL EXPRESSION; FEMALE; FIELD DEPENDENCE-INDEPENDENCE; GENE-ENVIRONMENT INTERACTION; GENETIC PREDISPOSITION TO DISEASE; HARM REDUCTION; HUMANS; MALE; ORIENTATION; PATTERN RECOGNITION, VISUAL; REACTION TIME;

EID: 84878108444     PISSN: 00219630     EISSN: 14697610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/jcpp.12024     Document Type: Article

References (40)

1. American Psychiatric Association. (2000). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders (4th edn). Washington, DC: Author.
2. Angold, A., Erkanli, A., Copeland, W., Goodman, R., Fisher, P.W., &, Costello, E.J., (2012). Psychiatric diagnostic interviews for children and adolescents: A comparative study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 51, 506-517.
3. Bar-Haim, Y., Lamy, D., Pergamin, L., Bakermans-Kranenburg, M.J., &, van IJzendoorn, M.H., (2007). Threat-related attentional bias in anxious and nonanxious individuals: A meta-analytic study. Psychological Bulletin, 133, 1.
4. Beidel, D.C., &, Turner, S.M., (1997). At risk for anxiety: Psychopathology in the offspring of anxious parents. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 36, 918-924.
5. Brown, H.M., Trzaskowski, M., Zavos, H.M.S., Rijsdijk, F.V., Gregory, A.M., &, Eley, T.C., (2012). Phenotypic and genetic structure of anxiety sensitivity in adolescence and early adulthood. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 26, 680-688.
6. Costello, E.J., Mustillo, S., Erkanli, A., Keeler, G., &, Angold, A., (2003). Prevalence and development of psychiatric disorders in childhood and adolescence. Archives of General Psychiatry, 60, 837.
7. Eley, T.C., Collier, D., McGuffin, P., Owen, M.J., &, Gottesman, I.I., (2002). Anxiety and eating disorders. In, P. McGuffin, M.J. Owen, I.I. Gottesman, (eds), Psychiatric genetics & genomics (pp. 303-340). Oxford: Oxford University Press.
8. Eley, T.C., Gregory, A.M., Clark, D.M., &, Ehlers, A., (2007). Feeling anxious: A twin study of panic/somatic ratings, anxiety sensitivity and heartbeat perception in children. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry and Allied Disciplines, 48, 1184-1191.
9. Goodman, R., Ford, T., Richards, H., Gatward, R., &, Meltzer, H., (2000). The Development and Well-Being Assessment: Description and initial validation of an integrated assessment of child and adolescent psychopathology. Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 41, 645-655.
10. Gregory, A.M., &, Eley, T.C., (2011). Chapter 8: The genetic basis of child and adolescent anxiety. In, W.K. Silverman, &, A.P. Field, (Eds.), Anxiety disorders in children and adolescents (2nd edn, pp. 161-178). Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
11. Hadwin, J.A., &, Field, A.P., (2010). Information processing biases and anxiety: A developmental perspective. Chichester: Wiley.
12. Hadwin, J.A., Garner, M., &, Perez-Olivas, G., (2006). The development of information processing biases in childhood anxiety: A review and exploration of its origins in parenting. Clinical Psychology Review, 26, 876-894.
13. Hakamata, Y., Lissek, S., Bar-Haim, Y., Britton, J.C., Fox, N.A., &, Leibenluft, E., (2010). Attention bias modification treatment: A meta-analysis toward the establishment of novel treatment for anxiety. Biological Psychiatry, 68, 982-990.
14. Hofstra, M.B., Van der Ende, J., &, Verhulst, F.C., (2000). Continuity and change of psychopathology from childhood into adulthood: A 14-year follow-up study. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 39, 850-858.
15. Huerta, M., Adema, W., BAxter, J., Croak, M., Deding, M., &, Gray, M.C., (2011). Early maternal employment and child development in five OECD countries. Social Employment and Migration Working Papers, 118, 1-53.
16. Kendler, K.S., Kessler, R.C., Walters, E.E., MacLean, C., Neale, M.C., &, Heath, A.C., (1995). Stressful life events, genetic liability, and onset of an episode of major depression in women. American Journal of Psychiatry, 152, 833-842.
17. Kessler, R.C., Berglund, P., Demler, O., Jin, R., Merikangas, K.R., &, Walters, E.E., (2005). Lifetime prevalence and age-of-onset distributions of DSM-IV disorders in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication. Archives of General Psychiatry, 62, 593-602.
18. La Greca, A.M., &, Lopez, N., (1998). Social anxiety among adolescents: Linkages with peer relations and friendships. Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 26, 83-94.
19. MacLeod, C., &, Mathews, A., (1988). Anxiety and the allocation of attention to threat. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology, 40, 653-670.
20. Mansell, W., Clark, D.M., Ehlers, A., &, Chen, Y.P., (1999). Social anxiety and attention away from emotional faces. Cognition & Emotion, 13, 673-690.
21. Matsumoto, D., &, Ekman, P., (1988). Japanese and Caucasion facial expression of emotion (JACFEE).
22. Meltzer, H., Gatward, R., Goodman, R., &, Ford, T., (2000). Mental health of children and adolescents in Great Britain. London: The Stationery Office.
23. Meyer-Lindenberg, A., &, Weinberger, D.R., (2006). Intermediate phenotypes and genetic mechanisms of psychiatric disorders. Nature Reviews Neuroscience, 7, 818-827.
24. Mogg, K., Bradley, B.P., &, Hallowell, N., (1994). Attentional bias to threat: Roles of trait anxiety, stressful events, and awareness. The Quarterly Journal of Experimental Psychology Section A, 47, 841-864.
25. Mogg, K., Philippot, P., &, Bradley, B.P., (2004). Selective attention to angry faces in clinical social phobia. Journal of Abnormal Psychology, 113, 160.
26. Muris, P., &, Field, A.P., (2008). Distorted cognition and pathological anxiety in children and adolescents. Cognition & Emotion, 22, 395-421.
27. Pine, D.S., Klein, R.G., Mannuzza, S., Moulton, J.L., Lissek, S., &, Guardino, M., (2005). Face-emotion processing in offspring at risk for panic disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 44, 664-672.
28. Plomin, R., DeFries, J.C., McClearn, G.E., &, McGuffin, P., (2007). Behavioral genetics (4th edn). New York: Worth Publishers.
29. Price, T.S., Freeman, B., Craig, I.W., Petrill, S.A., Ebersole, L., &, Plomin, R., (2000). Infant zygosity can be assigned by parental report questionnaire data. Twin Research, 3, 129-133.
30. Reiss, S., &, McNally, R.T., (1985). The expectancy model of fear. In, S. Reiss, R.R. Bodzin, (eds), Theoretical Issues in Behavior Therapy, (pp. 107-122). New York: Academic Press.
31. Schmukle, S.C., (2005). Unreliability of the dot probe task. European Journal of Personality, 19, 595-605.
32. Scott, A., Pearce, D., &, Goldblatt, P., (2001). The sizes and characteristics of the ethnic minority population in Great Britain: Latest estimates. Populations Trends, 105, 5-15.
33. Statacorp. (2007). Stata statistical software. Release 10. College Station, TX: StataCorp LP.
34. Stein, M., Jang, K., &, Livesley, W., (1999). Heritability of anxiety sensitivity: A twin study. American Journal of Psychiatry, 156, 246.
35. Stirling, L.J., Eley, T.C., &, Clark, D.M., (2006). Preliminary evidence for an association between social anxiety symptoms and avoidance of negative faces in school-age children. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35, 431-439.
36. Trouton, A., Spinath, F.M., &, Plomin, R., (2002). Twins early development study (TEDS): A multivariate, longitudinal genetic investigation of language, cognition and behavior problems in childhood. Twin Research and Human Genetics, 5, 444-448.
37. Van Ameringen, M., Mancini, C., &, Farvolden, P., (2003). The impact of anxiety disorders on educational achievement. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 17, 561-571.
38. Waters, A.M., Mogg, K., Bradley, B.P., &, Pine, D.S., (2008). Attentional bias for emotional faces in children with generalized anxiety disorder. Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 47, 435-442.
39. Zavos, H.M., Gregory, A.M., &, Eley, T.C., (2012). Longitudinal genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity. Developmental Psychology, 48, 204-212.
40. Zavos, H., Rijsdijk, F., Gregory, A., &, Eley, T., (2010). Genetic influences on the cognitive biases associated with anxiety and depression symptoms in adolescents. Journal of Affective Disorders, 124, 45-53.