Autonomic arousal in children of parents with and without social anxiety disorder: a high-risk study / Milica NIKOLIC in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 57-9 (September 2016)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 57-9 (September 2016) . - p.1047-1055 Titre : Autonomic arousal in children of parents with and without social anxiety disorder: a high-risk study Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Milica NIKOLIC, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Cristina COLONNESI, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1047-1055 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Social anxiety disorder  autonomic arousal  blushing  intergenerational transmission  high-risk design Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Objective Autonomic hyperarousal in social situations is considered a genetic vulnerability factor for social anxiety disorder (SAD), but so far it is unstudied in children at risk for developing SAD. We examined autonomic activity during socially stressful tasks in children of mothers and fathers with and without lifetime SAD to reveal possible biological mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of SAD. Methods One hundred ten children aged 4.5 years were asked to sing a song in front of an audience and watch back their performance in the presence of that audience. Heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), electrodermal activity (EDA), and blushing (cheek blood flow and temperature) were measured in anticipation of, during, and after the tasks. Both parents’ lifetime SAD status was assessed, and both parents reported about their own and their child's social anxiety symptoms. Results Children of parents with lifetime SAD blushed more during the socially challenging tasks than children of parents without SAD. Moreover, children of parents with more social anxiety symptoms showed increased EDA throughout the tasks. Finally, more blushing, increased EDA, and reduced HRV were associated with greater child social anxiety. Conclusions This study adds to the current knowledge on the intergenerational transmission of SAD by providing evidence that children at risk for SAD are characterized by excessive blushing in socially challenging situations. The findings also demonstrate that heightened autonomic activity is a characteristic of social anxiety already during early childhood. Hence, autonomic hyperarousal, and blushing in particular, is likely to play an etiological role in the development of SAD. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12563 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=292 [article] Autonomic arousal in children of parents with and without social anxiety disorder: a high-risk study [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Milica NIKOLIC, Auteur ; Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Cristina COLONNESI, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur . - p.1047-1055. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 57-9 (September 2016) . - p.1047-1055 Mots-clés : Social anxiety disorder  autonomic arousal  blushing  intergenerational transmission  high-risk design Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Objective Autonomic hyperarousal in social situations is considered a genetic vulnerability factor for social anxiety disorder (SAD), but so far it is unstudied in children at risk for developing SAD. We examined autonomic activity during socially stressful tasks in children of mothers and fathers with and without lifetime SAD to reveal possible biological mechanisms of intergenerational transmission of SAD. Methods One hundred ten children aged 4.5 years were asked to sing a song in front of an audience and watch back their performance in the presence of that audience. Heart rate (HR), heart rate variability (HRV), electrodermal activity (EDA), and blushing (cheek blood flow and temperature) were measured in anticipation of, during, and after the tasks. Both parents’ lifetime SAD status was assessed, and both parents reported about their own and their child's social anxiety symptoms. Results Children of parents with lifetime SAD blushed more during the socially challenging tasks than children of parents without SAD. Moreover, children of parents with more social anxiety symptoms showed increased EDA throughout the tasks. Finally, more blushing, increased EDA, and reduced HRV were associated with greater child social anxiety. Conclusions This study adds to the current knowledge on the intergenerational transmission of SAD by providing evidence that children at risk for SAD are characterized by excessive blushing in socially challenging situations. The findings also demonstrate that heightened autonomic activity is a characteristic of social anxiety already during early childhood. Hence, autonomic hyperarousal, and blushing in particular, is likely to play an etiological role in the development of SAD. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.12563 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=292

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

Intergenerational transmission of anxiety: linking parental anxiety to infant autonomic hyperarousal and fearful temperament / Wieke DE VENTE in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61-11 (November 2020)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 61-11 (November 2020) . - p.1203-1212 Titre : Intergenerational transmission of anxiety: linking parental anxiety to infant autonomic hyperarousal and fearful temperament Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1203-1212 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Behavioural inhibition  fearful temperament  habituation  heart rate  heart rate variability Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Autonomic hyperarousal has been proposed as a dispositional risk factor for anxiety disorders (ADs). Therefore, we studied physiological arousal in offspring of fathers and mothers with and without ADs and whether infant hyperarousal predicts subsequent fearful temperament. METHODS: Infants (N = 128; age = 4 months) did a novel stimuli task (exposure to visual, olfactory, and acoustic stimuli and an unfamiliar male) and a habituation task (exposure to a repeated acoustic stimulus). Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) were measured during baseline, stimuli and post-stimuli rest. Parents' AD status and severity were measured using a diagnostic interview and their fearful temperament using a questionnaire. Child fearful temperament was measured at 4 months, 1 year and 2.5 years with observations during structured tasks. RESULTS: Parents' fearful temperament (significant in the habituation task), AD status (significant in the novel stimuli task) and AD severity (significant in both tasks) predicted a higher HR in their infants. Infants' higher HR reactivity to novel stimuli and diminished HR recovery at 4 months predicted a more fearful temperament during infancy and toddlerhood. Infants' higher HR at 4 months predicted a more fearful temperament at 2.5 years. CONCLUSIONS: Parental prenatal anxiety (disorders) predicted infants' autonomic arousal, which in turn predicted later fearful temperament in children. Outcomes suggest that autonomic hyperarousal is a dispositional risk factor of ADs. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13208 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=434 [article] Intergenerational transmission of anxiety: linking parental anxiety to infant autonomic hyperarousal and fearful temperament [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Wieke DE VENTE, Auteur ; Mirjana MAJDANDŽI?, Auteur ; Susan M. BOGELS, Auteur . - p.1203-1212. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 61-11 (November 2020) . - p.1203-1212 Mots-clés : Behavioural inhibition  fearful temperament  habituation  heart rate  heart rate variability Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : BACKGROUND: Autonomic hyperarousal has been proposed as a dispositional risk factor for anxiety disorders (ADs). Therefore, we studied physiological arousal in offspring of fathers and mothers with and without ADs and whether infant hyperarousal predicts subsequent fearful temperament. METHODS: Infants (N = 128; age = 4 months) did a novel stimuli task (exposure to visual, olfactory, and acoustic stimuli and an unfamiliar male) and a habituation task (exposure to a repeated acoustic stimulus). Heart rate (HR) and heart rate variability (HRV) were measured during baseline, stimuli and post-stimuli rest. Parents' AD status and severity were measured using a diagnostic interview and their fearful temperament using a questionnaire. Child fearful temperament was measured at 4 months, 1 year and 2.5 years with observations during structured tasks. RESULTS: Parents' fearful temperament (significant in the habituation task), AD status (significant in the novel stimuli task) and AD severity (significant in both tasks) predicted a higher HR in their infants. Infants' higher HR reactivity to novel stimuli and diminished HR recovery at 4 months predicted a more fearful temperament during infancy and toddlerhood. Infants' higher HR at 4 months predicted a more fearful temperament at 2.5 years. CONCLUSIONS: Parental prenatal anxiety (disorders) predicted infants' autonomic arousal, which in turn predicted later fearful temperament in children. Outcomes suggest that autonomic hyperarousal is a dispositional risk factor of ADs. En ligne : http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13208 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=434

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

The unique contribution of blushing to the development of social anxiety disorder symptoms: results from a longitudinal study / Milica NIKOLIC in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 61-12 (December 2020)  

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