scholarly journals Social Anxiety Symptoms in Young Children: Investigating the Interplay of Theory of Mind and Expressions of Shyness

2016 ◽  
Vol 45 (5) ◽  
pp. 997-1011 ◽  
Author(s):  
Cristina Colonnesi ◽  
Milica Nikolić ◽  
Wieke de Vente ◽  
Susan M. Bögels
Author(s):  
Daniela Ehrenberg ◽  
Arnold Lohaus ◽  
Kerstin Konrad ◽  
Lorena Lüning ◽  
Nina Heinrichs

AbstractThe experience of fear is universal and is among the earliest of all forms of psychopathology, if excessively present. To prevent negative developmental outcomes due to early-onset excessive fears in children, it is important to systematically assess these experiences as early as possible. Using the preschool anxiety scale (PAS), we aimed to assess the frequency and structure of anxiety symptoms of 489 preschool-aged children raised in their biological family and 88 raised in foster care (as a high-risk sample) in Germany. While these young children displayed the same types of anxiety most commonly as young children in other countries, the overall occurrence seems to be reported less often by parents in Germany compared to parents from other countries. Anxiety symptoms clustered into five correlated factors (generalized anxiety, social anxiety, obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD), physical injury fear and separation anxiety). Young children in foster care exhibited more OCD and significantly less social anxiety symptoms indicating early repetitive and social disturbances in children in foster care.


Emotion ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 1012-1022 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andrei C. Miu ◽  
Romana Vulturar ◽  
Adina Chiş ◽  
Loredana Ungureanu ◽  
James J. Gross

2013 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 227-231 ◽  
Author(s):  
Virginia Slaughter ◽  
Candida C. Peterson ◽  
Chris Moore

2013 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
A.C. Miu ◽  
R. Vulturar ◽  
A. Chis

2018 ◽  
Vol 57 (12) ◽  
pp. 881-888 ◽  
Author(s):  
Meizhu Liu ◽  
Lingxiang Wu ◽  
Weijing Wu ◽  
Guangdi Li ◽  
Taisheng Cai ◽  
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