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Mood Symptoms and Emotional Responsiveness to Threat in School-Aged Children

Year: 2011

Type: article

Abstract: Clinical accounts of depression underscore its relation to negative emotional experiences; yet few empirical studies examine emotional experiences in adults with depression, with even less work on depression and emotion in children. Using a nonclinical sample of school-aged children (n = 89) ages 8 to 12, this study evaluated whether greater mood symptoms were associated with more or less intense emotional reactions (measured via psychophysiology, subjective report, and behavior) in response to a threat paradigm. Results indicated that greater negative mood symptoms were associated with larger startle magnitude responses during threat, increased self-reports of negative emotion, and greater likelihood of crying and stopping the paradigm prematurely.

Source: Journal of Clinical Child & Adolescent Psychology

DOI: 10.1080/15374416.2011.546047

Authors: Jessica L. Borelli, David A. Sbarra, Michael J. Crowley, Linda C. Mayes

Institutions: Pomona College, University of Arizona, Yale University

Language: English

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

Funder: National Institute on Aging