Identification of emotional facial expressions among behaviorally inhibited adolescents with lifetime anxiety disorders.

ABSTRACT: The current study examined differences in emotion expression identification between adolescents characterised with behavioural inhibition (BI) in childhood with and without a lifetime history of anxiety disorder. Participants were originally assessed for BI during toddlerhood and for social reticence during childhood. During adolescence, participants returned to the laboratory and completed a facial emotion identification task and a clinical psychiatric interview. Results revealed that behaviorally inhibited adolescents with a lifetime history of anxiety disorder displayed a lower threshold for identifying fear relative to anger emotion expressions compared to non-anxious behaviorally inhibited adolescents and non-inhibited adolescents with or without anxiety. These findings were specific

SUBMITTER: Reeb-Sutherland BC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4223008 | biostudies-literature | 2015

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature