Journal of the American Academy of Child & Adolescent Psychiatry
ARTICLESDoes Shy-Inhibited Temperament in Childhood Lead to Anxiety Problems in Adolescence?
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Participants
The ATP cohort of 2,443 infants, from urban and rural areas of the state of Victoria, Australia (Sanson et al., 1987), was recruited in 1983 when the children were 4 to 8 months of age. All families who attended a Maternal and Child Health Centre in a stratified sample of municipalities over a specified 2-week period in 1983 were enrolled in the study. The centers were selected to be representative of the state population on parental age, ethnic background, and socioeconomic status. There have
RESULTS
Are children with shy temperament in early life more prone to anxiety disorder at 13 to 14 years? Logistic regression analyses were used to investigate the relationship between shyness at each separate time point and the presence of a clinical level of anxiety problems at 13 to 14 years of age. Table 1 indicates that from infancy onward, shy temperament was associated with a higher incidence of later anxiety problems, with significant model improvement at p < .001 and odds ratios consistently
DISCUSSION
The prospective, longitudinal ATP data allowed the investigation of postulated connections between early temperamental shyness and later anxiety disorders within a large normative sample, across the period from infancy to adolescence. Whereas this represents a different sampling strategy from that used in previous developmental and clinical studies (Biederman et al., 1995, Kagan et al., 1989), and our measures were different and more limited in scope from those in these earlier studies, we
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This research was supported by grants from the National Health and Medical Research Council of Australia. The authors thank the participating families for their loyal support of the study.