Reliability and convergent validity of the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index in children and adolescents

Isolan, Luciano; Salum, Giovanni Abrahão; Flores, Suzielle Menezes; Carvalho, Hudson W. de; Manfro, Gisele Gus

doi:10.1590/s0047-20852012000400001

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“…Each of the transdiagnostic phenotype measures described below has been consistently associated with multiple psychopathologies (Audrain-McGovern et al, 2009; Audrain-McGovern et al, 2004; Cyders et al, 2007; Ellis & Rothbart, 2001; Isolan, Salum, Menezes Flores, de Carvalho, & Gus Manfro, 2012; Leventhal et al, 2015 in press; Leyro, Zvolensky, & Bernstein, 2010; Muris et al, 2008; Muris, Schmidt, Merckelbach, & Schouten, 2001; Pang et al, 2015 in press; Smith et al, 2007). …”

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Psychiatric comorbidity in adolescent electronic and conventional cigarette use

Leventhal

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Sussman

et al. 2016

Journal of Psychiatric Research

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The popularity of electronic (e-) cigarettes has greatly increased recently, particularly in adolescents. However, the extent of psychiatric comorbidity with adolescent e-cigarette use and dual use of conventional (combustible) and e-cigarettes is unknown. This study characterized psychiatric comorbidity in adolescent conventional and e-cigarette use. Ninth grade students attending high schools in Los Angeles, CA (M age=14) completed self-report measures of conventional/e-cigarette use, emotional disorders, substance use/problems, and transdiagnostic psychiatric phenotypes consistent with the NIMH-Research Domain Criteria Initiative. Outcomes were compared by lifetime use of: (1) neither conventional nor e-cigarettes (non-use; N=2557, 77.3%); (2) e-cigarettes only (N=412, 12.4%); (3) conventional cigarettes only (N=152, 4.6%); and (4) conventional and e-cigarettes (dual use; N=189, 5.6%). In comparison to adolescents who used conventional cigarettes only, e-cigarette only users reported lower levels of internalizing syndromes (depression, generalized anxiety, panic, social phobia, and obsessive-compulsive disorder) and transdiagnostic phenotypes (i.e., distress intolerance, anxiety sensitivity, rash action during negative affect). Depression, panic disorder, and anhedonia were higher in e-cigarette only vs. non-users. For several externalizing outcomes (mania, rash action during positive affect, alcohol drug use/abuse) and anhedonia, an ordered pattern was observed, whereby comorbidity was lowest in non-users, moderate in single product users (conventional or e-cigarette), and highest in dual users. These findings: (1) raise question of whether emotionally-healthier (‘lower-risk’) adolescents who are not interested in conventional cigarettes are being attracted to e-cigarettes; (2) indicate that research, intervention, and policy dedicated to adolescent tobacco-psychiatric comorbidity should distinguish conventional cigarette, e-cigarette, and dual use.

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confidence: 99%

Psychiatric comorbidity in adolescent electronic and conventional cigarette use

Leventhal

Strong

Sussman

et al. 2016

Journal of Psychiatric Research

197

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Emotional Competence and Anxiety in Childhood and Adolescence: A Meta-Analytic Review

Mathews

Koehn

Abtahi

et al. 2016

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Anxiety is conceptualized as a state of negative emotional arousal that is accompanied by concern about future threat. The purpose of this meta-analytic review was to evaluate the evidence of associations between emotional competence and anxiety by examining how specific emotional competence domains (emotion recognition, emotion expression, emotion awareness, emotion understanding, acceptance of emotion, emotional self-efficacy, sympathetic/empathic responses to others' emotions, recognition of how emotion communication and self-presentation affect relationships, and emotion regulatory processes) relate to anxiety in childhood and adolescence. A total of 185 studies were included in a series of meta-analyses (N's ranged from 573 to 25,711). Results showed that anxious youth are less effective at expressing (r = -0.15) and understanding emotions (r = -0.20), less aware of (r = -0.28) and less accepting of their own emotions (r = -0.49), and report less emotional self-efficacy (r = -0.36). More anxious children use more support-seeking coping strategies (r = 0.07) and are more likely to use less adaptive coping strategies including avoidant coping (r = 0.18), externalizing (r = 0.18), and maladaptive cognitive coping (r = 0.34). Emotion acceptance and awareness, emotional self-efficacy, and maladaptive cognitive coping yielded the largest effect sizes. Some effects varied with children's age. The findings inform intervention and treatment programs of anxiety in youth and identify several areas for future research.

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