Ewing Donna L, Dash Suzanne, Thompson Ellen J, Hazell Cassie M, Hughes Zoe, Lester Kathryn J, Cartwright-Hatton Sam
Trafford Centre, Brighton and Sussex Medical School, University of Sussex, Falmer, BN1 9RY, UK.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2016 Oct;44(7):1243-52. doi: 10.1007/s10802-015-0122-8.
This paper explores whether the increased vulnerability of children of anxious parents to develop anxiety disorders may be partially explained by these children having increased cognitive biases towards threat compared with children of non-anxious parents. Parents completed questionnaires about their child's anxiety symptoms. Children aged 5-9 (n = 85) participated in two cognitive bias tasks: 1) an emotion recognition task, and 2) an ambiguous situations questionnaire. For the emotion recognition task, there were no significant differences between at-risk children and children of non-anxious parents in their cognitive bias scores for reaction times or for accuracy in identifying angry or happy facial expressions. In addition, there were no significant differences between at-risk children and children of non-anxious parents in the number of threat interpretations made for the ambiguous situations questionnaire. It is possible that these cognitive biases only become present subsequent to the development of an anxiety disorder, or only in older at-risk children.
本文探讨了焦虑父母的孩子患焦虑症的易感性增加是否可以部分解释为与非焦虑父母的孩子相比，这些孩子对威胁有更多的认知偏差。父母完成了关于孩子焦虑症状的问卷。5至9岁的儿童（n = 85）参与了两项认知偏差任务：1）情绪识别任务，以及2）模糊情境问卷。对于情绪识别任务，高危儿童与非焦虑父母的孩子在反应时间的认知偏差得分或识别愤怒或快乐面部表情的准确性方面没有显著差异。此外，高危儿童与非焦虑父母的孩子在对模糊情境问卷做出的威胁解释数量上没有显著差异。这些认知偏差可能仅在焦虑症发展之后才出现，或者仅在年龄较大的高危儿童中出现。
