Nighttime fears of preschool children: A potential disposition marker for anxiety?

Comprehensive Psychiatry

Volumn 55, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 336-341

  Kushnir, Jonathan ^a   Gothelf, Doron ^a,b   Sadeh, Avi ^b  

^a SHEBA MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTION; BEHAVIOR CONTROL; BEHAVIOR DISORDER; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR CHECKLIST; CHILD BEHAVIOR QUESTIONNAIRE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEAR; FEAR SURVEY REVISED FOR PARENT; FEMALE; HUMAN; INHIBITION (PSYCHOLOGY); KOALA FEAR QUESTIONNAIRE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; NIGHTTIME FEAR; PARENT; PERSONAL EXPERIENCE; PRESCHOOL CHILD; QUESTIONNAIRE; SELF REPORT;

ANXIETY; ATTENTION; BIOLOGICAL MARKERS; CHILD; CHILD BEHAVIOR; CHILD BEHAVIOR DISORDERS; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; EXECUTIVE FUNCTION; FEAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84892671700     PISSN: 0010440X     EISSN: 15328384     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.comppsych.2013.08.019     Document Type: Article

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