Effortful Control Moderates the Relation Between Negative Emotionality and Child Anxiety and Depressive Symptom Severity in Children with Anxiety Disorders.

Publisher: Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers Country of Publication: United States NLM ID: 1275332 Publication Model: Print-Electronic Cited Medium: Internet ISSN: 1573-3327 (Electronic) Linking ISSN: 0009398X NLM ISO Abbreviation: Child Psychiatry Hum Dev Subsets: MEDLINE

Publication: 1999- : New York : Kluwer Academic/Plenum Publishers
Original Publication: New York, Behavioral Publications

Depression*/diagnosis ; Anxiety*/diagnosis; Female ; Adolescent ; Humans ; Child ; Anxiety Disorders/diagnosis ; Temperament ; Mothers

The present study investigated the interactive effect of reactive (negative emotionality) and regulatory (effortful control) aspects of temperament in the prediction of child anxiety and depressive symptoms. Clinically anxious children and their mothers completed a battery of questionnaires that included self- and mother-ratings of child effortful control, negative emotionality, anxiety, and depressive symptoms. Multiple regression analyses were conducted to examine the moderating effect of effortful control on the relation between negative emotionality and child anxiety and depressive symptom severity. The interaction between negative emotionality and effortful control was statistically significant and simple slopes revealed that as effortful control increased, the relationship between negative emotionality and anxiety and depressive symptoms weakened. Among anxious children high in negative emotionality, greater effortful control was related to less severe anxiety and depressive symptoms. Future work should evaluate whether targeting effortful control leads to reductions in internalizing symptoms among clinically anxious youth.
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R21 MH101309 United States MH NIMH NIH HHS; R21-MH101309-01A1 United States MH NIMH NIH HHS; R21-MH101309-01A1 United States MH NIMH NIH HHS

Keywords: Anxiety; Children; Depression; Effortful control; Negative emotionality

Date Created: 20210724 Date Completed: 20230124 Latest Revision: 20230202

20240513

PMC8784566

10.1007/s10578-021-01218-2

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