TY - JOUR
T1 - Mood symptoms and emotional responsiveness to threat in school-aged children
AU - Borelli, Jessica L.
AU - Sbarra, David A.
AU - Crowley, Michael J.
AU - Mayes, Linda C.
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was supported by grants from National Science Foundation, the Center for Mental Health Promotion, and by National Institutes of Health Grant 1-F32AG032310-01 awarded to the first author. Special thanks are due to Daryn David, Nicki Hunter, and Eric Langlois for their assistance with the project. Finally, thanks are due to all of the children and families who participated in this study.
PY - 2011/3
Y1 - 2011/3
N2 - 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.
AB - 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.
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U2 - 10.1080/15374416.2011.546047
DO - 10.1080/15374416.2011.546047
M3 - Article
C2 - 21391019
AN - SCOPUS:79952521088
VL - 40
SP - 220
EP - 232
JO - Journal of clinical child psychology
JF - Journal of clinical child psychology
SN - 1537-4416
IS - 2
ER -