Systematic review and meta-analysis: anxiety and depressive disorders in offspring of parents with anxiety disorders [PDF]
Objective: We conducted meta-analyses to assess risk of anxiety disorders among offspring of parents with anxiety disorders and to establish whether there is evidence of specificity of risk for anxiety disorders as opposed to depression in offspring, and
Creswell, Cathy+2 more
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Recent trends in the incidence of anxiety diagnoses and symptoms in primary care. [PDF]
Anxiety is common, with significant morbidity, but little is known about presentations and recording of anxiety diagnoses and symptoms in primary care.
Buszewicz, M+4 more
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Is math anxiety caused by a deficit in basic numerical skills? A study using numerical and non-numerical tasks [PDF]
Recent research found differences between high and low anxiety adults in basic numerical tasks like Arabic number comparison and dot enumeration (Maloney et al., 2010; 2011). This led some researchers to consider that math anxiety could be motivated by a
Carratalá, Patricia+1 more
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Perfectionism and competitive anxiety in athletes: Differentiating striving for perfection and negative reactions to imperfection [PDF]
Whereas some researchers have argued that perfectionism in sports is maladaptive because it is related to dysfunctional characteristics Such as higher competitive anxiety, the present article argues that striving for perfection is not maladaptive and is ...
Becker, Claudia+4 more
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Separation anxiety in families with emerging adults [PDF]
In several developmental theories separation anxiety has been identified as an important feature of close interpersonal relationships. Most often, separation anxiety has been examined in the context of mother-child dyads in infancy. Increasingly, however,
Beyers, Wim, Kins, Evie, Soenens, Bart
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Are left-handers really more anxious? [PDF]
Research examining anxiety and handedness is inconclusive. Davidson and Schaffer (1983) found left-handers had higher trait anxiety, while Beaton and Moseley (1991) found no state or trait differences. Such studies potentially have methodological issues,
Hardie, Scott M., Wright, Lynn
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Patterns of anxiety symptoms in toddlers and preschool-age children: Evidence of early differentiation [PDF]
The degree to which young children’s anxiety symptoms differentiate according to diagnostic groupings is under-studied, especially in children below the age of 4 years.
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J.+3 more
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An Ecological Risk Model for Early Childhood Anxiety: The Importance of Early Child Symptoms and Temperament [PDF]
Childhood anxiety is impairing and associated with later emotional disorders. Studying risk factors for child anxiety may allow earlier identification of at-risk children for prevention efforts.
Briggs-Gowan, Margaret J.+3 more
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Effects of intervention upon precompetition state anxiety in elite junior tennis players: The relevance of the matching hypothesis [PDF]
Reproduced with permission of publisher from: Terry, P., Coakley, L., & Karageorghis, C. Effects of intervention upon precompetition state anxiety in elite junior tennis players: the relevance of the matching hypothesis.
Burton D.+12 more
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Psychological and sociodemographic correlates of communicative anxiety in L2 and L3 production [PDF]
This paper analyses foreign language anxiety in the French L2 and English L3 speech production of 100 Flemish students. The findings suggest that foreign language anxiety is not a stable personality trait among experienced language learners. The societal
Dewaele, Jean-Marc
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