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Longitudinal Relations among Behavioral Inhibition, Error-Related Negativity, and Sex in Predicting Social Anxiety among Children

Morra, Allison Anne
http://orcid.org/0009-0007-9475-1997
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami173223142327528

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2024, Master of Arts, Miami University, Psychology.
Because social anxiety is highly prevalent among children and adolescents, it is important to study early risk factors in infancy in order to better understand a developmental pathway to social anxiety. Behavioral inhibition (BI), a tendency to hesitate or avoid novelty and uncertainty, is a leading risk factor appearing in infancy. BI has been linked to social anxiety through heightened response monitoring for threat or error. This error monitoring can be operationalized by measuring error-related negativity (ERN). Additionally, as social anxiety does not appear equally in men and women, it is important to understand if there is an underlying sex difference in neural components like ERN, and how sex determines pathways of risk involving ERN, that accounts for the difference in prevalence rates. This study (112 children, 44.6% female, 85.7% White, 95.5% non-Hispanic) proposed that infant BI will predict social anxiety symptoms in early childhood, through larger concurrent ERN, and that sex will moderate this mediation, with the relation between ERN and social anxiety symptoms being stronger among female children. Results did not support either hypothesis, but did find that BI predicted later social anxiety symptoms. Non-significant findings are discussed in the context of developmental psychopathology theory of social anxiety.
Elizabeth Kiel (Advisor)
Aaron Luebbe (Committee Member)
Robin Thomas (Committee Member)
26 p.
Clinical Psychology
Social anxiety; Behavioral Inhibition; Error-Related Negativity; ERN

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  • Morra, A. A. (2024). Longitudinal Relations among Behavioral Inhibition, Error-Related Negativity, and Sex in Predicting Social Anxiety among Children [Master's thesis, Miami University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami173223142327528

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Morra, Allison. Longitudinal Relations among Behavioral Inhibition, Error-Related Negativity, and Sex in Predicting Social Anxiety among Children. 2024. Miami University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami173223142327528.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Morra, Allison. "Longitudinal Relations among Behavioral Inhibition, Error-Related Negativity, and Sex in Predicting Social Anxiety among Children." Master's thesis, Miami University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=miami173223142327528

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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