TY  - JOUR
TI  - Adverse life events and chronic adversities as antecedents to anxiety in children: A matched control study
KW  - child anxiety
KW  -  etiology
KW  -  stress
KW  -  life events
KW  -  chronic adversity
KW  -  Health and wellbeing
UR  - https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10011698/
SP  - 1047
AV  - restricted
JF  - Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
EP  - 1056
N1  - Research conducted as part of first author's PhD. Primary responsibility for the conceptualisation, analysis and write-up of study findings, as well as data collection. Results provide evidence for increased rates of severe life events and chronic adversities as antecedents to clinical episodes of anxiety in children. This study has been included in a recent review of the aetiology of anxiety in children (Rapee et al., 2009).
SN  - 1573-2835
ID  - discovery10011698
VL  - 36
N2  - The present study compared the number of severe life events and chronic adversities as reported retrospectively by mothers of children with an anxiety disorder (n=39) prior to the onset of their most recent episode, with controls (n=39) matched for age and sex. The parent version of the Psychosocial Assessment of Childhood Experiences (PACE) was used to assess chronic adversities (long-term experiences with negative impact on child) and severe life events (discrete life events with high long-term threat). A significantly greater number of severe life events and chronic adversities were assessed prior to onset for anxious children compared to controls. The finding for severe life events held regardless of whether impact ratings were assigned by mothers or a panel of independent raters, suggesting the findings reflect actual as opposed to perceived differences. Results suggest that both discrete and chronic stressors may constitute risk for future episodes of anxiety in children.
A1  - Allen, Jennifer
A1  - Rapee, Ronald
A1  - Sandberg, Seija
Y1  - 2008/10//
IS  - 7
ER  -