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Do anxiety-related attention biases mediate the link between maternal over involvement and separation anxiety in children?

Do anxiety-related attention biases mediate the link between maternal over involvement and separation anxiety in children?
Do anxiety-related attention biases mediate the link between maternal over involvement and separation anxiety in children?
This study explored attentional mechanisms via which maternal over involvement could contribute to a child's separation anxious symptomatology across development. Consistent with developmental theories of cognition and childhood anxiety age was found to moderate the relationship between attentional biases towards threatening (angry) faces and separation anxiety. In addition, the results highlighted that maternal over involvement enhanced a child's separation anxiety via an attentional bias to angry faces. The results suggest that vigilance for threat partially mediates the association between maternal over involvement and symptoms of childhood separation anxiety. The implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.
cognition and emotion, cognitive psychology, emotion
0269-9931
509-521
Perez-Olivas, Gisela
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Stevenson, Jim
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Hadwin, Julie A.
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Perez-Olivas, Gisela
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Stevenson, Jim
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Hadwin, Julie A.
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Perez-Olivas, Gisela, Stevenson, Jim and Hadwin, Julie A. (2008) Do anxiety-related attention biases mediate the link between maternal over involvement and separation anxiety in children? [in special issue: Child anxiety theory and treatment] Cognition and Emotion, 22 (3), 509-521. (doi:10.1080/02699930801886656).

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This study explored attentional mechanisms via which maternal over involvement could contribute to a child's separation anxious symptomatology across development. Consistent with developmental theories of cognition and childhood anxiety age was found to moderate the relationship between attentional biases towards threatening (angry) faces and separation anxiety. In addition, the results highlighted that maternal over involvement enhanced a child's separation anxiety via an attentional bias to angry faces. The results suggest that vigilance for threat partially mediates the association between maternal over involvement and symptoms of childhood separation anxiety. The implications and limitations of these findings are discussed.

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Published date: April 2008
Keywords: cognition and emotion, cognitive psychology, emotion
Organisations: Clinical Neurosciences

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Local EPrints ID: 146371
URI: http://eprints.soton.ac.uk/id/eprint/146371
ISSN: 0269-9931
PURE UUID: 5bb63552-e08e-4457-a52b-d69b7ac3af8b

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Date deposited: 21 Apr 2010 13:32
Last modified: 14 Mar 2024 00:55

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Author: Gisela Perez-Olivas
Author: Jim Stevenson
Author: Julie A. Hadwin

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