Cognitive processing and anxiety in mainstream children: trait anxiety and interpretation bias
Hadwin, J. and Frost, S. and French, C.C. and Richards, Anne (1997) Cognitive processing and anxiety in mainstream children: trait anxiety and interpretation bias. Journal of Abnormal Psychology 106 (3), pp. 486-490. ISSN 0021-843X.
Abstract
In this study the authors examined whether increases in children's levels of self-reported trait anxiety would be related to their interpretation of ambiguous stimuli. By using the Revised Children's Manifest Anxiety Scale (C. R. Reynolds & B. O. Richmond, 1985), the authors obtained measurements of anxiety for 40 children ages 7 and 9 years. Interpretation of ambiguous stimuli was measured by using a pictorial homophone task, where homophones could be interpreted as either threatening or neutral. Results showed that children's interpretations of homophones was significantly predicted by level of anxiety. Increases in levels of trait anxiety were positively associated with threatening interpretations of homophones.
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| Item Type: | Article |
|---|---|
| School: | Birkbeck Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Science > School of Psychological Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Sarah Hall |
| Date Deposited: | 04 Feb 2020 15:07 |
| Last Modified: | 02 Aug 2023 17:57 |
| URI: | https://eprints.bbk.ac.uk/id/eprint/30797 |
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