Anxiety in children: Testing the role of cognition

Author(s): Tripp, G.

Journal/Book: N Z J Psychol. 1995; 24: Business Manager, PO Box 4092, Wellington, New Zealand. New Zealand Psychol Soc. 29-36.

Abstract: Research on anxiety in children has focused on the assessment, diagnosis, and epidemiology of childhood anxiety disorders. The etiology of children's anxiety has received limited attention. Recently, researchers have suggested that cognitive models of anxiety, developed to explain adult anxiety disorders, may be appropriate to children. Following a brief overview of fear and anxiety in children, the empirical evidence in support of a cognitive explanation of childhood anxiety is presented. The role of negative self-talk in children's anxiety is targeted specifically Next several important methodological and theoretical issues in the assessment of children's cognitions, and the cognitive model of anxiety, are addressed: the age at which children can report their self-talk, the validity of cognitive assessment procedures, unitizing and coding children's self-talk, and the site and timing of data collection. Where appropriate, the authors' research is presented to highlight these issues.

Note: Article J Lodge, Univ Otago, Dept Psychol, POB 56, Dunedin, New Zealand

Keyword(s): CONTENT-SPECIFICITY HYPOTHESIS; OBSESSIVE-COMPULSIVE DISORDER; TEST-ANXIOUS CHILDREN; SCHOOL-AGE-CHILDREN; IDEATIONAL COMPONENTS; PSYCHIATRIC-DISORDERS; DEVELOPMENTAL-CHANGES; NATURAL-HISTORY; SELF-REGULATION; TRAIT ANXIETY

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