Developmental Relations Among Behavioral Inhibition, Anxiety, and Attention Biases to Threat and Positive Information

Lauren K. White; Kathryn A. Degnan; Heather A. Henderson; Koraly Pérez-Edgar; Olga L. Walker; Tomer Shechner; Ellen Leibenluft; Yair Bar-Haim; Daniel S. Pine; Nathan A. Fox

doi:10.1111/cdev.12696

Developmental Relations Among Behavioral Inhibition, Anxiety, and Attention Biases to Threat and Positive Information

Lauren K. White, Kathryn A. Degnan, Heather A. Henderson, Koraly Pérez-Edgar, Olga L. Walker, Tomer Shechner, Ellen Leibenluft, Yair Bar-Haim, Daniel S. Pine, Nathan A. Fox

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This study examined relations between behavioral inhibition (BI) assessed in toddlerhood (n = 268) and attention biases (AB) to threat and positive faces and maternal-reported anxiety assessed when children were 5- and 7-year-old. Results revealed that BI predicted anxiety at age 7 in children with AB toward threat, away from positive, or with no bias, at age 7; BI did not predict anxiety for children displaying AB away from threat or toward positive. Five-year AB did not moderate the link between BI and 7-year anxiety. No direct association between AB and BI or anxiety was detected; moreover, children did not show stable AB across development. These findings extend our understanding of the developmental links among BI, AB, and anxiety.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	141-155
Number of pages	15
Journal	Child Development
Volume	88
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/cdev.12696
State	Published - 1 Jan 2017

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