Investigated the trajectory of maternal emotional wellbeing (i.e.
separate measures of anxiety and depression) in relation to child variables (i.e. ASD symptoms and problem behaviour) at 18 - month intervals across a ten - year period.
Not exact matches
A paper Young published this month, in collaboration with researchers at the University
of Tsukuba in Japan, found prairie voles that have bonded with a mate not only experience more
anxiety when
separated from their partners — they also experience more physical pain during the separation, by various
measures including response to a painful injection and pain from heat.
Results implied the presence
of two attachment dimensions,
anxiety and avoidance, which were distinct and
separate from other
measures of relationship attachment and group identification, and predicted behavioural, cognitive, and affective components.
At minimum the report should include the assessment (from patient or independent rater perspective, not therapist)
of at least two standardized outcome
measures, global functioning and target symptom (i.e. depression,
anxiety, etc), as well as one process
measure (i.e. therapeutic alliance, session depth, emotional experiencing, etc) evaluated on at least three
separate occasions.
Measuring Anxiety in Children: The Importance
of Separate Mother and Father Reports.
Since
anxiety and depression are highly correlated and often comorbid, it is important that studies
separate anxiety and depression (as opposed to using a composite
measure of internalizing symptoms) in order to increase specificity.
The review considered (a) content validity, i.e., The degree to which the
measure adequately reflects
anxiety; (b) construct validity, i.e., the degree to which the
measure positively correlates with another
measure of anxiety (convergent validity) and the degree to which it does not correlate with a
measure presumed to
measure a construct
separate from
anxiety (divergent validity).