Both theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest
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Both theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder (SAD) have difficulties with emotion regulation (ER), but little is known about which deficits are disorder-specific or involv
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Sourced from the abstract of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2007 and 2026, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 245 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Cognitive Errors, Anxiety Sensitivity, and Anxiety Control Beliefs (2007) · Behavior Modification · cited 93× · doi
Existing research has suggested that these constructs are related to childhood anxiety disorder symptoms; however, additional research is needed to test the interrelations among negative cognitive errors, anxiety sensitivity, and anxiety control beliefs and to determine if they show unique and specific associations with anxiety symptoms.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: anxiety symptoms existing constructs related childhood disorder additional needed test interrelations among negative cognitive errors - Child Sexual Abuse in the Etiology of Anxiety Disorders (2012) · Trauma Violence & Abuse · cited 152× · doi
Although a growing number of research studies have been published, these have produced inconsistent results and conclusions regarding the nature of the associations between child sexual abuse and the various forms of anxiety problems as well as the potential effects of third variables, such as moderators, mediators, or confounders.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: growing number published produced inconsistent conclusions regarding nature associations child sexual abuse various forms anxiety - Emotion Regulation in Children and Adolescents with Social Anxiety Disorder: Differences in Strategy Use and Repertoire Compared to Specific Phobias and Healthy Controls (2026) · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · doi
Both theoretical models and empirical evidence suggest that children and adolescents with social anxiety disorder (SAD) have difficulties with emotion regulation (ER), but little is known about which deficits are disorder-specific or involved across different anxiety disorders for this age group.
generalabstractevidence 5/5Keywords: anxiety disorder theoretical models empirical evidence suggest children adolescents social difficulties emotion regulation little known
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