Childhood physical and sexual abuse in patients with anxiety disorders and in a community sample

1996 ◽  
Vol 153 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-277 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Physical And Sexual Abuse

Child physical and sexual abuse in a community sample of young adults: Results from the Ontario Child Health Study

2013 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 14-21 ◽  
Author(s):  
Harriet L. MacMillan ◽  
Masako Tanaka ◽  
Eric Duku ◽  
Tracy Vaillancourt ◽  
Michael H. Boyle
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Young Adults ◽  
Child Health ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Health Study ◽  
Physical And Sexual Abuse

Physical and Sexual Abuse History in Patients with Chronic Benign Pain

2003 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tera Somogyi ◽  
Steve Slane ◽  
Judith Scheman ◽  
Edward Covington
Keyword(s):  
Sexual Abuse ◽  
Abuse History ◽  
Physical And Sexual Abuse

Relationships between attention to emotion and anxiety among a community sample of adolescents

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-12
Author(s):  
Benjamin C. Mullin ◽  
Jacob B. W. Holzman ◽  
Laura Pyle ◽  
Emmaly L. Perks ◽  
Yaswanth Chintaluru ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Anxiety Disorders ◽  
Eye Tracking ◽  
Attentional Bias ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Small Samples ◽  
Control Analysis ◽  
Attentional Processes ◽  
Anxious Youth ◽  
Case Control Analysis

Abstract Background Attentional bias to threat has been implicated as a cognitive mechanism in anxiety disorders for youth. Yet, prior studies documenting this bias have largely relied on a method with questionable reliability (i.e. dot-probe task) and small samples, few of which included adolescents. The current study sought to address such limitations by examining relations between anxiety – both clinically diagnosed and dimensionally rated – and attentional bias to threat. Methods The study included a community sample of adolescents and employed eye-tracking methodology intended to capture possible biases across the full range of both automatic (i.e. vigilance bias) and controlled attentional processes (i.e. avoidance bias, maintenance bias). We examined both dimensional anxiety (across the full sample; n = 215) and categorical anxiety in a subset case-control analysis (n = 100) as predictors of biases. Results Findings indicated that participants with an anxiety disorder oriented more slowly to angry faces than matched controls. Results did not suggest a greater likelihood of initial orienting to angry faces among our participants with anxiety disorders or those with higher dimensional ratings of anxiety. Greater anxiety severity was associated with greater dwell time to neutral faces. Conclusions This is the largest study to date examining eye-tracking metrics of attention to threat among healthy and anxious youth. Findings did not support the notion that anxiety is characterized by heightened vigilance or avoidance/maintenance of attention to threat. All effects detected were extremely small. Links between attention to threat and anxiety among adolescents may be subtle and highly dependent on experimental task dimensions.

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