Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
Stable Early Maternal Report of Behavioral Inhibition Predicts Lifetime Social Anxiety Disorder in Adolescence
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Participants
Families with young infants were initially contacted by mail using birth records of local hospitals. They were asked to return surveys to ensure that infants were full term and normally developing and that parents were right handed (because of the aims of the larger study). Infants (n = 443) were screened at 4 months of age to assess their reactivity to novel auditory and visual stimuli. Videotapes of the screening procedure were coded for positive and negative affect and motor activity during
Preliminary Analyses
The 4-month temperament groupings were examined for significant relations to the adolescent psychopathology measures. None of the temperament groups were significantly related to adolescent diagnoses or anxiety symptoms (all p's > .25). Therefore, these groupings were not included in any further analysis.
Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia for School-Age Children
The percentage of participants with current and lifetime anxiety, mood, and disruptive behavior disorders are presented in Table 1, Table 2, respectively. Rates of disorder did not differ
Discussion
The present study extends existing literature examining temperament as a predictor of adolescent psychopathology by using multiple assessments of temperament in infancy and early childhood and following participants into adolescence—the period of greatest risk for SAD onset, and the point at which data demonstrate robust relatively stable trajectories of anxiety disorders into adulthood.49 Furthermore, this study uses semistructured diagnostic interviews conducted with both adolescents and
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This research was supported by National Institute of Mental Health R01MH074454 and National Institute of Child Health and Development R01 HD017899 (PI: N.F.).