caa a22 4500 475740165 CHVBK 20180406123457.0 cr unu---uuuuu 170329e20000401xx s 000 0 eng 10.1023/A:1005179032470 doi (NATIONALLICENCE)springer-10.1023/A:1005179032470 Dysfunctional Cognitions in Children with Social Phobia, Separation Anxiety Disorder, and Generalized Anxiety Disorder [Elektronische Daten] [Susan Bögels, Denise Zigterman] According to cognitive theories of anxiety, anxious adults interpret ambiguous situations in a negative way: They overestimate danger and underestimate their abilities to cope with danger. The present study investigated whether children with social phobia, separation anxiety disorder, and generalized anxiety disorder have such a bias, compared to a clinical and a normal control group. Children were exposed to stories in which ambiguous situations were described, and asked to give their interpretations, using open and closed responses. Results showed that anxious children reported more negative cognitions than control children. However, anxious children did not overestimate danger on the free responses, but they did judge the situations as more dangerous on the closed responses. Anxious children had lower estimations of their own competency to cope with danger than the control groups on both open and closed responses. The results indicate that children with anxiety disorders have dysfunctional cognitions about ambiguous situations. Plenum Publishing Corporation, 2000 Dysfunctional cognitions nationallicence anxiety disorders in children nationallicence cognitive theory nationallicence threat bias nationallicence Bögels Susan Department of Medical, Clinical, and Experimental Psychology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands aut Zigterman Denise Student Mental Health Sciences, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands aut Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 28/2(2000-04-01), 205-211 0091-0627 28:2<205 2000 28 10802 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005179032470 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1005179032470 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Bögels Susan Department of Medical, Clinical, and Experimental Psychology, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 700 1- Zigterman Denise Student Mental Health Sciences, University of Maastricht, The Netherlands aut NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers 28/2(2000-04-01), 205-211 0091-0627 28:2<205 2000 28 10802 Metadata rights reserved Springer special CC-BY-NC licence nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-springer