Sensitivity of Gray’s Behavioral Inhibition System in clinically anxious and non-anxious children and adolescents

Vervoort, Leentje; Wolters, Lidewij H.; Hogendoorn, Sanne M.; Haan, Erik de; Boer, Frits; Prins, Pier J. M.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2009.12.021

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“…The results indicated that there was a positive significant relation between harm avoidance and state/trait anxiety. This finding is in agreement with those achieved by Jylhä and Isometsa [5], Abolghasemi et al [6], Kimbrel et al [7], Vervoort et al [8], Nyman et al [9], Strelau and Zawadzki [10], Mertol and Alkın [11], and Rapee [12]. Based on Consigner's theory, high harm avoidance is associated with low level of serotonin.…”

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“…Outcomes of this study revealed that there was a positive significant relationship between reward dependence dimension and state/trait anxiety. Findings of Abolghasemi et al [6] and Vervoort et al [8] also confirmed this outcome. As Cloninger [3] states, in people with high level of reward dependence, the level of norepinephrine is low.…”

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“…In addition, individuals with generalized social fears were found to report both higher levels of BIS and lower levels of BAS compared to individuals with few or specific social fears. Vervoort et al [8] showed that BIS scores is higher in the anxious samples compare to non-anxious samples but BAS scores is equal in these two groups; also, higher levels of BIS-activity were related to an increase in symptoms of anxiety and depression. Nyman et al [9] concluded that patients with symptoms of depression and anxiety show very similar underlying temperament patterns.…”

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The role of temperament and character dimensions in predicting state-trait anxiety in high school students

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Mozaffari²,

Jafary³

et al. 2018

J Research Health

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Studies advocate the role of temperament factors in development and persistence of anxiety. The aim of this study was to determine the role of temperament and character dimensions in predicting the state-trait anxiety in high school students. In this study, the statistical population consisted of all high school students (N=3416). One hundred and eighty students were selected randomly from this population by using multistage cluster sampling. They were asked to complete state-trait anxiety inventory, and cloninger's temperament and character inventory in the class in presence of the researcher. The findings of correlation analysis showed that anxiety was positively correlated with novelty seeking, harm avoidance, and reward dependence, while it was negatively correlated with persistence, cooperativeness, and self-directedness. The results of regression analysis indicated that 60% of variance of anxiety was explained by temperament and character dimensions. Based on the results of this study, temperament and character dimensions can provide a kind of predisposition for anxiety and can be used to identify anxiety symptoms in early stages.

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The role of temperament and character dimensions in predicting state-trait anxiety in high school students

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“…Therefore, a high degree of conflict and higher BIS sensitivity would be expected to result in heightened anxiety (Corr, 2004). Although the revised RST posits that the FFFS and BIS are separate systems, the separate systems theory has not been strongly supported with psychometric data (Heym, Ferguson, & Lawrence, 2008;Tull, Gratz, Latzman, Kimbrel, & Lejuez, 2010;Vervoort et al, 2010). The most commonly used measures of BIS/BAS sensitivity (such as the BIS/BAS Scales used here; Carver & White, 1994) are derived from the original RST theory, in which the FFFS and the BIS were represented as one construct (i.e., BIS).…”

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Experiential avoidance as a moderator of the relationship between behavioral inhibition system sensitivity and posttraumatic stress symptoms

Pickett

Bardeen

Orcutt

2011

Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…Extremely high or low levels of BIS sensitivity are also related to pathologies. An overactive BIS is related to clinical conditions of anxiety (Kimbrel, 2008;Vervoort et al, 2010) and affective disorders (Hundt, Nelson-Gray, Kimbrel, Mitchell, & Kwapil, 2007;Kasch, Rottenberg, Arnow, & Gotlib, 2002;Pinto-Meza et al, 2006;Sportel, Nauta, Hullu, de Jong, & Hartman, 2011), whereas a hypoactive BIS leads to risk proneness and is related to (primary) psychopathy (Corr, 2008).…”

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Individual differences in the Behavioral Inhibition System are associated with orbitofrontal cortex and precuneus gray matter volume

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Barrós‐Loscertales

Bustamante

et al. 2012

Cogn Affect Behav Neurosci

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The Behavioral Inhibition System (BIS) is described in Gray's Reinforcement Sensitivity Theory as a hypothetical construct that mediates anxiety in animals and humans. The neuroanatomical correlates of this system are not fully clear, although they are known to involve the amygdala, the septohippocampal system, and the prefrontal cortex. Previous neuroimaging research has related individual differences in BIS with regional volume and functional variations in the prefrontal cortex, amygdala, and hippocampal formation. The aim of the present work was to study BIS-related individual differences and their relationship with brain regional volume. BIS sensitivity was assessed through the BIS/BAS questionnaire in a sample of male participants (N 0 114), and the scores were correlated with brain regional volume in a voxel-based morphometry analysis. The results show a negative correlation between the BIS and the volume of the right and medial orbitofrontal cortices and the precuneus. Our results and previous findings suggest that individual differences in anxiety-related personality traits and their related psychopathology may be associated with reduced brain volume in certain structures relating to emotional control (i.e., the orbitofrontal cortex) and self-consciousness (i.e., the precuneus), as shown by our results.

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Sensitivity of Gray’s Behavioral Inhibition System in clinically anxious and non-anxious children and adolescents

Cited by 74 publications

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The role of temperament and character dimensions in predicting state-trait anxiety in high school students

The role of temperament and character dimensions in predicting state-trait anxiety in high school students

Experiential avoidance as a moderator of the relationship between behavioral inhibition system sensitivity and posttraumatic stress symptoms

Individual differences in the Behavioral Inhibition System are associated with orbitofrontal cortex and precuneus gray matter volume

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