Developmental Changes in the Association Between Cognitive Control and Anxiety.

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Author	Filippi, Courtney A. Subar, Anni Ravi, Sanjana Haas, Sara Troller-Renfree, Sonya V. Fox, Nathan A. Leibenluft, Ellen Pine, Daniel S.
Abstract	Anxiety has been associated with reliance on reactive (stimulus-driven/reflexive) control strategies in response to conflict. However, this conclusion rests primarily on indirect evidence. Few studies utilize tasks that dissociate the use of reactive (‘just in time’) vs. proactive (anticipatory/preparatory) cognitive control strategies in response to conflict, and none examine children diagnosed with anxiety. The current study utilizes the AX-CPT, which dissociates these two types of cognitive control, to examine cognitive control in youth (ages 8–18) with and without an anxiety diagnosis (n = 56). Results illustrate that planful behavior, consistent with using a proactive strategy, varies by both age and anxiety symptoms. Young children (ages 8–12 years) with high anxiety exhibit significantly less planful behavior than similarly-aged children with low anxiety. These findings highlight the importance of considering how maturation influences relations between anxiety and performance on cognitive-control tasks and have implications for understanding the pathophysiology of anxiety in children.Supplementary InformationThe online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10578-021-01150-5.
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ISSN	0009398X
Journal	Child Psychiatry and Human Development [Child Psychiatry Hum Dev]
Volume Number	53
DOI	10.1007/s10578-021-01150-5
PubMed Central reference number	PMC9107422
Issue Number	3
PubMed reference number	33738691
e-ISSN	15733327
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2021-03-18
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	Open
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Subject Keyword	AX-CPT Cognitive control Anxiety Childhood Reactive control Proactive control
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Developmental and Educational Psychology Psychiatry and Mental Health Pediatrics, Perinatology and Child Health