The explanatory role of anxiety sensitivity in the association between effortful control and child anxiety and depressive symptoms.

ABSTRACT: The present study examined the underlying role of anxiety sensitivity in the association between effortful control and anxiety and depressive symptoms in a sample of clinically anxious children. It was hypothesized that effortful control would exert an indirect effect through anxiety sensitivity in relation to child anxiety and depressive symptoms. Clinically anxious children (N= 105; M_age = 10.09 years, SD = 1.22; 56.7% female; 61% ethnic minority) and their mothers completed a diagnostic interview and a battery of questionnaires that included self- and mother-ratings of child effortful control, anxiety sensitivity, and anxiety and depressive symptoms. The indirect effect of effortful control via anxiety sensitivity on child anxiety and depressive symptoms

SUBMITTER: Raines EM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7581554 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature