Performance-based interpretation bias in clinically anxious youths: Relationships with attention, anxiety, and negative cognition

Behavior Therapy

Volumn 45, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 594-605

  Rozenman, Michelle ^a   Amir, Nader ^a   Weersing, V Robin ^a  

^a Clinical Psychology ^*  (United States)

Author keywords

Attention; Cognitive bias; Information processing; Interpretation; Youth anxiety

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; ATTENTIONAL BIAS; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COGNITION; CONTROLLED STUDY; DECISION MAKING; DEPRESSION; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GENERALIZED ANXIETY DISORDER; HUMAN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INTERPRETATION BIAS; MALE; PERFORMANCE BASED INTERPRETATION BIAS; RESPONSE TIME; SCHOOL CHILD; SEPARATION ANXIETY; SOCIAL PHOBIA; SYMPTOMATOLOGY; THREAT; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; PROCEDURES; PSYCHOLOGY;

ADOLESCENT; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDERS; ATTENTION; CHILD; COGNITION; COGNITIVE THERAPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84904213380     PISSN: 00057894     EISSN: 18781888     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.beth.2014.03.009     Document Type: Article

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