Intergenerational transmission of anxious information processing biases

Information Processing Biases and Anxiety: A Developmental Perspective

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 280-295

  Creswell, Cathy ^a   Cooper, Peter ^a   Murray, Lynne ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

'Fear effect' family enhancement of avoidant responses; Generalized anxiety disorder (gad) in vulnerable child; Intergenerational transmission of anxiety; Intergenerational transmission of anxious information processing biases; Parental behaviours associated with how children process information; Parental expectations, influencing children's developing cognitions proposed by Rubin, Cheah and fox (2001); Parental over involvement implicated in anxiety development; Parental warmth negativity; Parents of anxious children expecting their children to "see" threat and respond to difficult situations with avoidance; Parents' own interpretive biases influencing behaviour with their child directly

Indexed keywords

EID: 84886191991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470661468.ch12     Document Type: Chapter

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