Information Processing in Clinically Depressed and Anxious Children and Adolescents

摘要: The investigation of cognitive content and processes in childhood anxiety depression has lagged behind similar research the adult population. What studies do exist have largely restricted themselves to examining nature thoughts that anxious depressed children report. There is almost no ways which perceive, attend to, remember, or think make judgements about, emotional material. present study investigated subjective probability concerning future negative events. Subjects generated estimates either for other a range events on visual analogue scale. Events were physically-threat-related socially-threat-related. results revealed differences interest with respect type threat but interesting between groups reference. Depressed subjects estimated equally likely happen as whereas both controls more others than themselves, this effect being stronger group. These are discussed context literature also limited emotion-related processing children.