Bumping heart and sweaty palms: physiological hyperarousal as a risk factor for child social anxiety / Milica NIKOLIC in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 59-2 (February 2018)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 59-2 (February 2018) . - p.119-128 Titre : Bumping heart and sweaty palms: physiological hyperarousal as a risk factor for child social anxiety Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Milica NIKOLIC, Auteur ; Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur ; Cristina COLONNESI, Auteur ; Wieke VENTE, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.119-128 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Physiological hyperarousal in social situations is a characteristic of individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD), but so far it has been rarely studied as a biological risk for SAD. Here, we investigate whether children at high risk for SAD (because of their parents’ SAD) display physiological hyperarousal while interacting with a stranger. Also, we examine whether early physiological hyperarousal is related to later child social anxiety. Method One hundred and seventeen children took part in the stranger?approach task when they were 2.5 and 4.5 years old. Heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), and electrodermal activity (EDA) were measured before, during, and after the conversation with a stranger. Both parents’ lifetime SAD status and SAD severity were assessed before the birth of the child. Both parents and children reported on children's social anxiety symptoms when children were 7.5. Results Children of parents with the lifetime SAD diagnosis did not differ in their physiological activity from children of parents without lifetime SAD. However, children of parents with more severe SAD displayed heightened EDA throughout the task procedure. Increased HR and reduced HRV during the stranger?approach and elevated EDA throughout the task phases were linked to later child social anxiety. Conclusions Parents’ severity of SAD is related to child physiological hyperarousal early in their childhood. In addition, physiological hyperarousal in early childhood predicts later child social anxiety. Together, these findings suggest that early physiological hyperarousal in social situations may pose a risk for later child social anxiety and that physiological hyperarousal, and EDA in particular, may be a biological mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of SAD. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12813 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=339 [article] Bumping heart and sweaty palms: physiological hyperarousal as a risk factor for child social anxiety [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Milica NIKOLIC, Auteur ; Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur ; Cristina COLONNESI, Auteur ; Wieke VENTE, Auteur . - p.119-128. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 59-2 (February 2018) . - p.119-128 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Physiological hyperarousal in social situations is a characteristic of individuals with social anxiety disorder (SAD), but so far it has been rarely studied as a biological risk for SAD. Here, we investigate whether children at high risk for SAD (because of their parents’ SAD) display physiological hyperarousal while interacting with a stranger. Also, we examine whether early physiological hyperarousal is related to later child social anxiety. Method One hundred and seventeen children took part in the stranger?approach task when they were 2.5 and 4.5 years old. Heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), and electrodermal activity (EDA) were measured before, during, and after the conversation with a stranger. Both parents’ lifetime SAD status and SAD severity were assessed before the birth of the child. Both parents and children reported on children's social anxiety symptoms when children were 7.5. Results Children of parents with the lifetime SAD diagnosis did not differ in their physiological activity from children of parents without lifetime SAD. However, children of parents with more severe SAD displayed heightened EDA throughout the task procedure. Increased HR and reduced HRV during the stranger?approach and elevated EDA throughout the task phases were linked to later child social anxiety. Conclusions Parents’ severity of SAD is related to child physiological hyperarousal early in their childhood. In addition, physiological hyperarousal in early childhood predicts later child social anxiety. Together, these findings suggest that early physiological hyperarousal in social situations may pose a risk for later child social anxiety and that physiological hyperarousal, and EDA in particular, may be a biological mechanism in the intergenerational transmission of SAD. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12813 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=339

How do parents' depression and anxiety, and infants' negative temperament relate to parent–infant face-to-face interactions? / Evin AKTAR in Development and Psychopathology, 29-3 (August 2017)  

Public ISBD [article]  inDevelopment and Psychopathology > 29-3 (August 2017) . - p.697-710 Titre : How do parents' depression and anxiety, and infants' negative temperament relate to parent–infant face-to-face interactions? Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Cristina COLONNESI, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.697-710 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Abstract The present study investigated the associations of mothers' and fathers' lifetime depression and anxiety symptoms, and of infants' negative temperament with parents' and infants' gaze, facial expressions of emotion, and synchrony. We observed infants' (age between 3.5 and 5.5 months, N = 101) and parents' gaze and facial expressions during 4-min naturalistic face-to-face interactions. Parents' lifetime symptoms of depression and anxiety were assessed with clinical interviews, and infants' negative temperament was measured with standardized observations. Parents with more depressive symptoms and their infants expressed less positive and more neutral affect. Parents' lifetime anxiety symptoms were not significantly related to parents' expressions of affect, while they were linked to longer durations of gaze to parent, and to more positive and negative affect in infants. Parents' lifetime depression or anxiety was not related to synchrony. Infants' temperament did not predict infants' or parents' interactive behavior. The study reveals that more depression symptoms in parents are linked to more neutral affect from parents and from infants during face-to-face interactions, while parents' anxiety symptoms are related to more attention to parent and less neutral affect from infants (but not from parents). En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579416000390 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=311 [article] How do parents' depression and anxiety, and infants' negative temperament relate to parent–infant face-to-face interactions? [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Cristina COLONNESI, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur . - p.697-710. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Development and Psychopathology > 29-3 (August 2017) . - p.697-710 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Abstract The present study investigated the associations of mothers' and fathers' lifetime depression and anxiety symptoms, and of infants' negative temperament with parents' and infants' gaze, facial expressions of emotion, and synchrony. We observed infants' (age between 3.5 and 5.5 months, N = 101) and parents' gaze and facial expressions during 4-min naturalistic face-to-face interactions. Parents' lifetime symptoms of depression and anxiety were assessed with clinical interviews, and infants' negative temperament was measured with standardized observations. Parents with more depressive symptoms and their infants expressed less positive and more neutral affect. Parents' lifetime anxiety symptoms were not significantly related to parents' expressions of affect, while they were linked to longer durations of gaze to parent, and to more positive and negative affect in infants. Parents' lifetime depression or anxiety was not related to synchrony. Infants' temperament did not predict infants' or parents' interactive behavior. The study reveals that more depression symptoms in parents are linked to more neutral affect from parents and from infants during face-to-face interactions, while parents' anxiety symptoms are related to more attention to parent and less neutral affect from infants (but not from parents). En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0954579416000390 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=311

Parental social anxiety disorder prospectively predicts toddlers' fear/avoidance in a social referencing paradigm / Evin AKTAR in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 55-1 (January 2014)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 55-1 (January 2014) . - p.77-87 Titre : Parental social anxiety disorder prospectively predicts toddlers' fear/avoidance in a social referencing paradigm Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.77-87 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Social referencing  parental anxiety  father's role  behavioral inhibition Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Anxiety runs in families. Observational learning of anxious behavior from parents with anxiety disorders plays an important role in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety. We investigated the link between parental anxiety (parental lifetime anxiety disorders and expressed parental anxiety) and toddler fear/avoidance during social referencing (SR) situations. Method Toddlers (N = 117) participated with both parents (with lifetime social anxiety disorder, other nonsocial anxiety disorders, lifetime comorbid social and other anxiety disorders, or without anxiety disorders) in a longitudinal study. Behavioral inhibition (BI) was measured at 12 months via observational tasks. At 30 months, children were confronted with a stranger and a remote-control robot in SR situations, separately with each parent. Children's fear and avoidance, and parents' expressions of anxiety, encouragement, and overcontrol were observed. Results Toddlers of parents with lifetime social anxiety disorder (alone and comorbid with other anxiety disorders) showed more fear/avoidance in SR situations than toddlers of parents without anxiety disorders, while the effect of other anxiety disorders alone was not significant. Although expressed parental anxiety at 30 months in SR situations did not significantly predict toddlers' fear/avoidance, higher levels of expressed anxiety at 12 months in SR situations by parents with comorbid social and other anxiety disorders predicted higher levels of fear/avoidance. BI at 12 months predicted toddlers' fear/avoidance only with mothers, but not with fathers. Conclusions Parental lifetime social anxiety disorders may be a stronger predictor of children's fear/avoidance than parents' expressions of anxiety in SR situations in toddlerhood. End of infancy may be a sensitive time for learning of anxiety from parents with comorbid lifetime social and nonsocial anxiety disorders in SR situations. Fathers are as important as mothers in the transmission of anxiety via SR. Furthermore, children may act relatively free of their early temperament in SR situations with fathers. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12121 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220 [article] Parental social anxiety disorder prospectively predicts toddlers' fear/avoidance in a social referencing paradigm [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur . - p.77-87. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 55-1 (January 2014) . - p.77-87 Mots-clés : Social referencing  parental anxiety  father's role  behavioral inhibition Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Anxiety runs in families. Observational learning of anxious behavior from parents with anxiety disorders plays an important role in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety. We investigated the link between parental anxiety (parental lifetime anxiety disorders and expressed parental anxiety) and toddler fear/avoidance during social referencing (SR) situations. Method Toddlers (N = 117) participated with both parents (with lifetime social anxiety disorder, other nonsocial anxiety disorders, lifetime comorbid social and other anxiety disorders, or without anxiety disorders) in a longitudinal study. Behavioral inhibition (BI) was measured at 12 months via observational tasks. At 30 months, children were confronted with a stranger and a remote-control robot in SR situations, separately with each parent. Children's fear and avoidance, and parents' expressions of anxiety, encouragement, and overcontrol were observed. Results Toddlers of parents with lifetime social anxiety disorder (alone and comorbid with other anxiety disorders) showed more fear/avoidance in SR situations than toddlers of parents without anxiety disorders, while the effect of other anxiety disorders alone was not significant. Although expressed parental anxiety at 30 months in SR situations did not significantly predict toddlers' fear/avoidance, higher levels of expressed anxiety at 12 months in SR situations by parents with comorbid social and other anxiety disorders predicted higher levels of fear/avoidance. BI at 12 months predicted toddlers' fear/avoidance only with mothers, but not with fathers. Conclusions Parental lifetime social anxiety disorders may be a stronger predictor of children's fear/avoidance than parents' expressions of anxiety in SR situations in toddlerhood. End of infancy may be a sensitive time for learning of anxiety from parents with comorbid lifetime social and nonsocial anxiety disorders in SR situations. Fathers are as important as mothers in the transmission of anxiety via SR. Furthermore, children may act relatively free of their early temperament in SR situations with fathers. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12121 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=220

The interplay between expressed parental anxiety and infant behavioural inhibition predicts infant avoidance in a social referencing paradigm / Evin AKTAR in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 54-2 (February 2013)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 54-2 (February 2013) . - p.144-156 Titre : The interplay between expressed parental anxiety and infant behavioural inhibition predicts infant avoidance in a social referencing paradigm Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur Année de publication : 2013 Article en page(s) : p.144-156 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Social referencing  parental anxiety disorders  expressed parental anxiety  behavioural inhibition Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background: Anxiety aggregates in families. Environmental factors, such as modelling of anxious behaviours, are assumed to play a causal role in the development of child anxiety. We investigated the predictive value of paternal and maternal anxiety (lifetime anxiety disorders and expressed parental anxiety) on infants' fear and avoidance during encounters with social and nonsocial novel stimuli in a social referencing (SR) paradigm. Methods: A total of 122 12-month-old infants participated in this study separately with their fathers and mothers (parents with lifetime: social anxiety disorders [n = 47], other types of anxiety disorders [n = 33], comorbid social and other types of anxiety disorders [n = 52] and without anxiety disorders [n = 112]). Infants were confronted with a stranger and a mechanical dinosaur as novel stimuli in two SR situations. Infants' avoidance as well as fear and parents' expressed anxiety were observed. Infants' behavioural inhibition (BI) was separately observed in structured tasks. Results: Parental lifetime anxiety disorders did not significantly predict infant fear or avoidance. Expressed parental anxiety interacted with BI to significantly predict infant avoidance, revealing a positive association between expressed parental anxiety and infant avoidance among infants with moderate-to-high BI. The association between infant avoidance and expressed parental anxiety was not significantly different for mothers and fathers, pointing to an equally important role of fathers at this young age. Infant fear was significantly predicted by infant BI, but not by expressed parental anxiety. Conclusions: Infants with a temperamental disposition for anxiety (BI) may learn from both paternal and maternal anxious signals and become avoidant towards novelty when their parents express anxiety. This link between expressed parental anxiety and infant avoidance for moderate-to-high BI children, that seems to hold across contexts and to be independent of lifetime parental anxiety disorders, may be a mechanism explaining early intergenerational transmission of anxiety. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02601.x Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=188 [article] The interplay between expressed parental anxiety and infant behavioural inhibition predicts infant avoidance in a social referencing paradigm [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Evin AKTAR, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur . - 2013 . - p.144-156. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 54-2 (February 2013) . - p.144-156 Mots-clés : Social referencing  parental anxiety disorders  expressed parental anxiety  behavioural inhibition Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background: Anxiety aggregates in families. Environmental factors, such as modelling of anxious behaviours, are assumed to play a causal role in the development of child anxiety. We investigated the predictive value of paternal and maternal anxiety (lifetime anxiety disorders and expressed parental anxiety) on infants' fear and avoidance during encounters with social and nonsocial novel stimuli in a social referencing (SR) paradigm. Methods: A total of 122 12-month-old infants participated in this study separately with their fathers and mothers (parents with lifetime: social anxiety disorders [n = 47], other types of anxiety disorders [n = 33], comorbid social and other types of anxiety disorders [n = 52] and without anxiety disorders [n = 112]). Infants were confronted with a stranger and a mechanical dinosaur as novel stimuli in two SR situations. Infants' avoidance as well as fear and parents' expressed anxiety were observed. Infants' behavioural inhibition (BI) was separately observed in structured tasks. Results: Parental lifetime anxiety disorders did not significantly predict infant fear or avoidance. Expressed parental anxiety interacted with BI to significantly predict infant avoidance, revealing a positive association between expressed parental anxiety and infant avoidance among infants with moderate-to-high BI. The association between infant avoidance and expressed parental anxiety was not significantly different for mothers and fathers, pointing to an equally important role of fathers at this young age. Infant fear was significantly predicted by infant BI, but not by expressed parental anxiety. Conclusions: Infants with a temperamental disposition for anxiety (BI) may learn from both paternal and maternal anxious signals and become avoidant towards novelty when their parents express anxiety. This link between expressed parental anxiety and infant avoidance for moderate-to-high BI children, that seems to hold across contexts and to be independent of lifetime parental anxiety disorders, may be a mechanism explaining early intergenerational transmission of anxiety. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1469-7610.2012.02601.x Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=188

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