Avoidant Coping Style to High Imminence Threat Is Linked to Higher Anxiety-Like Behavior.

ABSTRACT: Human studies with self-reported measures have suggested a link between an avoidant coping style and high anxiety. Here, using the common marmoset as a model, we characterize the latent factors underlying behavioral responses of these monkeys towards low and high imminence threat and investigate if a predominantly avoidant behavioral response to high imminence threat is associated with greater anxiety-like behavior in a context of low imminence threat. Exploratory factor analysis (EFA) of the human intruder test of low imminence threat revealed a single factor in which a combination of active vigilance and avoidance responses underpinned anxiety-like behavior. In contrast, two negatively-associated factors were revealed in the model snake test reflecting active and avoidant coping to high

SUBMITTER: Quah SKL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7078632 | biostudies-literature | 2020

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature