Risk Factors for Pediatric Anxiety Disorders

Longitudinal associations between posttraumatic stress disorder, separation anxiety, and rumination among adolescents: Disentangling within-person and between-person associations.

“…Furthermore, the relation between PTSD and separation anxiety may also be influenced by cognitive factors, which play important roles as emphasized in many studies and theories (e.g., Bryant, 2021;Ehlers & Clark, 2000;Warner & Strawn, 2023). Among these factors, rumination is a key cognitive process that may be associated with the persistence of PTSD (e.g., Moulds et al, 2020;Zhou et al, 2021) and separation anxiety (e.g., W. Li, He, & Xiao, 2023).…”