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Article: The relationship between anxiety disorder symptons and negative self-statements in normal children
- Article from:
- Social Behavior and Personality
- Article date:
- January 1, 1998
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CopyrightCopyright Society for Personality Research, Incorporated 1998. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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The current study examined the relationship between anxiety disorder symptoms and negative selfstatements in a sample of normal children (N=l 19). Children were asked to complete the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED) and the Negative Affect Self-Statement Questionnaire (NASSQ). Results showed that, in normal children, there is a positive relationship between anxiety disorder symptoms, as indexed by the SCARED, and negative self-statements, as measured by the NASSQ. In particular, anxious self-statements were more often present in children who exhibited relatively high levels of anxiety symptoms. Furthermore, depressive and anxiousdepressive self-statements were ...