Faculty Articles
Relation of childhood worry to information processing factors in an ethnically diverse community sample.
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2-2006
Publication Title
Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology
Volume
35
Issue/Number
1
First Page
136
ISSN
1537-4416
Last Page
147
Abstract/Excerpt
This study examined information-processing variables in relation to worry in a sample of 292 fifth-grade children from Caucasian, African American, and Hispanic backgrounds. Results revealed that worry was related to threat interpretations for hypothetical situations and, when stress level was not controlled, to higher estimates of future occurrence for perceived threatening situations and ineffective solution choices. In addition, environmental and individual factors such as stress, gender, and socioeconomic status (SES) were found to be important predictors of information-processing variables. Ethnicity did not predict children's information processing when stress level and SES were controlled; however, it interacted with worry to predict problem-solving confidence. The findings support the information-processing model for childhood anxiety in a nonreferred and ethnically diverse sample.
DOI
10.1207/s15374424jccp3501_12
NSUWorks Citation
Suarez-Morales, L.,
Bell, D.
(2006). Relation of childhood worry to information processing factors in an ethnically diverse community sample.. Journal of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, 35(1), 136-147.
Available at: https://nsuworks.nova.edu/cps_facarticles/405
