Approach and Avoidance Tendencies in Spider Fearful Children: The Approach-Avoidance Task

Fear in children is associated with the tendency to avoid situations related to the fear. In this study, the Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT) was evaluated as a test of automatic behavioral avoidance tendencies in children. A sample of 195 children aged between 9 and 12 years completed an AAT, a Behavi...

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Autores principales: Klein, Anke M., Becker, Eni S., Rinck, Mike
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer US 2010
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Original Paper
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9402-7
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description Fear in children is associated with the tendency to avoid situations related to the fear. In this study, the Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT) was evaluated as a test of automatic behavioral avoidance tendencies in children. A sample of 195 children aged between 9 and 12 years completed an AAT, a Behavioral Assessment Task (BAT), and two spider fear questionnaires. The results indicate that all children showed an automatic avoidance tendency in response to spider pictures, but not pictures of butterflies or neutral pictures. Girls who reported more fear of spiders on the self-reports and behaved more anxiously during the BAT also showed a greater avoidance tendency in the AAT. These relationships were absent in boys.
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spelling pubmed-30483042011-04-05 Approach and Avoidance Tendencies in Spider Fearful Children: The Approach-Avoidance Task Klein, Anke M. Becker, Eni S. Rinck, Mike J Child Fam Stud Original Paper Fear in children is associated with the tendency to avoid situations related to the fear. In this study, the Approach-Avoidance Task (AAT) was evaluated as a test of automatic behavioral avoidance tendencies in children. A sample of 195 children aged between 9 and 12 years completed an AAT, a Behavioral Assessment Task (BAT), and two spider fear questionnaires. The results indicate that all children showed an automatic avoidance tendency in response to spider pictures, but not pictures of butterflies or neutral pictures. Girls who reported more fear of spiders on the self-reports and behaved more anxiously during the BAT also showed a greater avoidance tendency in the AAT. These relationships were absent in boys. Springer US 2010-08-01 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3048304/ /pubmed/21475709 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9402-7 Text en © The Author(s) 2010 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Noncommercial License which permits any noncommercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author(s) and source are credited.
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Approach and Avoidance Tendencies in Spider Fearful Children: The Approach-Avoidance Task
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title_short Approach and Avoidance Tendencies in Spider Fearful Children: The Approach-Avoidance Task
title_sort approach and avoidance tendencies in spider fearful children: the approach-avoidance task
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3048304/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21475709
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10826-010-9402-7
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