Effortful Control, Interpretation Biases, and Child Anxiety Symptom Severity in a Sample of Children with Anxiety Disorders

DiscussionGreater effortful control may result in enhanced attentional capacities that allow children to assess automatic cognitions more objectively, potentially lowering their anxiety. Future work should evaluate whether targeting malleable temperamental constructs, such as effortful control, leads to clinically meaningful reductions in interpretation biases and child anxiety symptoms.

Source: Journal of Anxiety Disorders - August 28, 2019 Category: Psychiatry Source Type: research