Longitudinal relations among temperament, cognitive control, and anxiety: From toddlerhood to late adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Children with a history of behaviorally inhibited (BI) temperament face a heightened risk for anxiety disorders and often use control strategies that are less planful. Although these relations have been observed concurrently in early childhood, middle childhood, and adolescence, few studies leverage longitudinal data to examine long-term prospective relations between cognitive control and anxiety. Using longitudinal data from 149 adolescents (55% female; from predominantly White middle-class families), we assessed temperament in toddlerhood and cognitive control and anxiety at 4, 12, 15, and 18 years of age. At age 4, separate measures of task switching and inhibitory control were obtained via the Dimensional Change Card Sort and Stroop tasks, respectively. At 12, 15, and 18 years of age,

SUBMITTER: Drexler CL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11995847 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature