Child anxiety and the processing and ambiguity

Dodd, H. F. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1446-5338, Stuijfzand, S., Morris, T. and Hudson, J. L. (2015) Child anxiety and the processing and ambiguity. Cognitive Therapy and Research, 39 (5). pp. 669-677. ISSN 0147-5916 doi: 10.1007/s10608-015-9689-1

Abstract/Summary

An association between interpretation of ambiguity and anxiety may exist in children, but findings have been equivocal. The present research utilized the Interpretation Generation Questionnaire for Children (IGQ-C), a novel measure that breaks down the processing of ambiguity into three steps: the generation of possible interpretations, the selection of the most likely interpretation and the anticipated emotional response to the ambiguous situation. The IGQ-C was completed by 103 children aged 11–12 years, 28 of whom had a clinical anxiety disorder. There was some evidence for an association between anxiety and: (1) the generation of initial negative interpretations; (2) the generation of a greater number of negative interpretations overall; and (3) the selection of negative responses. These findings were not consistent across measures of anxiety. A more convincing association was found between child anxiety and anticipated emotional response to the ambiguous scenarios, with anxious children anticipating more negative emotion.

Item Type	Article
URI	https://reading-clone.eprints-hosting.org/id/eprint/40176
Identification Number/DOI	10.1007/s10608-015-9689-1
Refereed	Yes
Divisions	Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Department of Psychology Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Psychopathology and Affective Neuroscience Life Sciences > School of Psychology and Clinical Language Sciences > Anxiety and Depression in Young People (AnDY)
Publisher	Springer
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