What do children worry about? Worries and their relation to anxiety.
What do children worry about? Worries and their relation to anxiety.
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孩子们担心什么？
DOI：
10.1111/j.1467-8624.1995.tb00897.x
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发表时间：
1995
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Wasserstein,S
中科院分区：
文献类型：
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作者：
Silverman,WK;LaGreca,AM;Wasserstein,S
摘要本研究旨在探讨小学学龄儿童的忧虑及其与焦虑的关系。该研究还检查了是否可以描述过度忧虑或功能失调忧虑的参数。从二年级到六年级（7-12岁）的儿童使用结构化方法进行访谈，并完成了几项儿童焦虑测量。评估的忧虑参数包括：忧虑的数量、忧虑的领域、忧虑的强度和忧虑事件发生频率的感知。调查结果显示，与年龄相关的差异很少，但发现女孩比男孩报告更多的担忧，非洲裔美国人比白人或西班牙裔儿童报告更多的担忧。最常见的三个担忧领域包括学业、健康和人身伤害。焦虑与担忧显著相关，为这两个构念之间的联系提供了实证支持。焦虑参数，特别是焦虑的数量和强度，可以区分正常学校样本中的高焦虑和低焦虑儿童。本文讨论了这些发现对理解担忧在儿童焦虑中的作用的意义。
This study examined worry in elementary school aged children and its relation to anxiety. The study also examined whether parameters of excessive or dysfunctional worry could be delineated. Children from second through sixth grades (ages 7–12 years) were interviewed using a structured approach and completed several child anxiety measures. Parameters of worry assessed included: number of worries, areas of worry, intensity of worries, and perceptions of the frequency of worry events. Findings revealed few age‐related differences but found that girls reported more worries than boys and that African‐Americans reported more worries than white or Hispanic children. The three most common areas of worry involved School, Health, and Personal Harm. Anxiety was significantly associated with worry, providing empirical support for a link between these two constructs. Worry parameters, especially number and intensity of worries, could differentiate high and low anxious children in a normal school sample. Implications of these findings for understanding the role of worry in childhood anxiety are discussed.