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Measuring Attentional Biases for Threat in Children and Adults
Published on: October 19, 2014
Predicting children's reactions to terrorist attacks: the importance of self-reports and preexisting characteristics
Ellen Hock1, Margaret Hart, Min Ju Kang
1Department of Human Development and Family Science, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA. hock.l@osu.edu
Abstract:
Forty-eight mothers and their 11-year-old children, who were participants in a longitudinal study, were interviewed in their home after the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. Children's verbatim statements were analyzed for fear, separation anxiety, denial, rationalization, anger, and empathy. In the final model, preexisting child anxiety and maternal worry significantly explained 33% of the variance in children's self-reported fearful feelings.
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