Internal representations: predicting anxiety from children's play narratives.
Internal representations: predicting anxiety from children's play narratives.
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内部表征：从儿童游戏叙述中预测焦虑。
DOI：
10.1097/00004583-200001000-00022
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发表时间：
2000
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Sroufe,LA
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作者：
Warren,SL;Emde,RN;Sroufe,LA
目的本研究使用儿童的故事主干游戏叙述来检验某些特定的自我和经历的内部表征是否可以预测儿童后期的焦虑。方法对 35 名 5 至 6 岁的非临床儿童进行了研究。 5 岁儿童的叙述被编码为对自我、他人和经历的负面期望。当孩子 5 岁和 6 岁时，家长和老师填写了《儿童行为检查表》和《教师报告表》。母亲们在孩子 6 岁时完成了《儿童诊断访谈表》中的焦虑部分。还测量了父母的焦虑和孩子的气质。 结果 5 岁儿童的负面期望显着预测了母亲/父亲/老师报告的内化和焦虑症状，以及母亲报告的 6 岁时分离焦虑、过度焦虑和社交恐惧症/回避障碍症状，即使在回归方程中首先输入 5 岁时的焦虑和内化症状。在这些分析中，儿童消极期望比父母焦虑和孩子气质更好地预测了以后的焦虑。结论儿童消极期望可能是以后焦虑发展的危险因素或机制。儿童的叙述可能有助于检查此类陈述并识别处于危险中的儿童。
OBJECTIVEThis research uses children's story-stem play narratives to examine whether certain specified internal representations of self and experiences will predict later childhood anxiety.METHODThirty-five nonclinical children were studied from 5 to 6 years of age. Narratives of the 5-year-old children were coded for negative expectations of self, others, and experiences. Parents and teachers completed the Child Behavior Checklist and Teacher's Report Form when the children were 5 and 6 years of age. Mothers completed the anxiety section of the Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children when the children were 6 years of age. Parental anxiety and child temperament were also measured.RESULTSFive-year-old child negative expectations significantly predicted mother/father/teacher reports of internalizing and anxiety symptoms and mother reports of separation anxiety, overanxious, and social phobia/avoidant disorder symptoms in the children at 6 years of age, even when anxiety and internalizing symptoms at 5 years of age were entered first in the regression equations. Child negative expectations predicted later anxiety in these analyses better than parental anxiety and child temperament.CONCLUSIONSChild negative expectations may be a risk factor or a mechanism for the development of later anxiety. Children's narratives may be useful for examining such representations and identifying children at risk.