Family enhancement of cognitive style in anxious and aggressive children
Family enhancement of cognitive style in anxious and aggressive children
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DOI：
10.1007/bf01441484
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发表时间：
1996-04-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Ryan, SM
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作者：
Barrett, PM;Rapee, RM;Ryan, SM
以往的研究表明，焦虑的成年人比其他诊所和非诊所的人提供更多的模糊刺激的威胁解释。我们感兴趣的是调查是否同样的偏见发生在焦虑的儿童，以及家庭过程如何影响这些儿童的歧义的解释。分别要求焦虑、对立和非临床儿童及其父母对模棱两可的情景进行解释并提供行动计划。之后，每个家庭被要求作为一个家庭讨论其中的两种情况，并让孩子提供最后的回答。结果表明，焦虑和对立的儿童都更有可能以威胁的方式解释模糊的场景。然而，两个临床组的不同之处在于，焦虑的儿童主要选择回避的解决方案，而反对的儿童选择攻击的解决方案。经过家庭讨论后，焦虑儿童的回避行动计划和反对儿童的攻击计划都有所增加。因此，这项研究提供了第一个证据，家庭增强的回避和攻击反应的儿童。这些结果支持了一个模型的焦虑，强调焦虑的认知风格的背景下，焦虑支持家庭过程的发展。
Previous research has shown that anxious adults provide more threat interpretations of ambiguous stimuli than other clinic and nonclinic persons. We were interested in investigating if the same bias occurs in anxious children and how family processes impact on these children's interpretations of ambiguity. Anxious, oppositional, and nonclinical children and their parents were asked separately to interpret and provide plans of action to ambiguous scenarios. Afterwards, Each family was asked to discuss two of these situations as a family and for the child to provide a final response. The results showed that anxious and oppositional children were both more likely to interpret ambiguous scenarios in a threatening manner. However, the two clinic groups differed in that the anxious children predominantly chose avoidant solutions whereas the oppositional children chose aggressive solutions. After family discussions, both the anxious children's avoidant plans of action and the oppositional children's aggressive plans increased. Thus this study provides the first evidence of family enhancement of avoidant and aggressive responses in children. These results support a model of anxiety that emphasizes the development of an anxious cognitive style in the context of anxiety-supporting family processes..