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•During a study funded by the National Institute of Mental Health, Jones and Ollendick (2002) conduced approximately 160 interviews with children and families exposed to residential fires.
•One of the specific areas of the study examined the relationship between child’s fear of everyday life events and various methods by which anxiety can manifest itself.
•A specific aim of this study is to see if certain children could be further at risk for anxiety issues following a trauma such as fire.
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Children’s Everyday Life Fear as a Predictor of Future Manifest Anxiety in Fire Trauma Victims
Knepp, Michael M., Hadder, James M., Immel, Chris, S., Jones, Russell, T., & Ollendick, Thomas H.
INTRODUCTION
HYPOTHESESRESULTS
METHODOLOGY
Address correspondence to [email protected] Presented at the 23rd Annual Meeting of the International Society of Traumatic Stress Studies, Baltimore, MD, Nov 2007
RESULTS (cont.)
DISCUSSION
REFERENCESJones, R. T., & Ollendick, T. H. (2002). Residential fires. In A.M. La Greca, W.K. Silverman, E. Vernberg, & M.C. Roberts, (Eds.), Helping children cope with disasters and terrorism (pp. 175-199). Washington, D.C.: American Psychological Association.
•The predicted result is that increased everyday life fears will relate with present high manifest anxiety at recordings 1 month post-trauma.
•Also, increased everyday life fears at the 1 month post-trauma period will be able to predict increased manifest anxiety at 1 year post-trauma.
•Everyday Life Fears Scale•The fear survey is a self-rating questionnaire for children. It includes subscales about failure & criticism, the unknown, minor injuries/small animals, danger/death, medical fears, and a total fear score
•Manifest Anxiety Scale•The revised children’s manifest anxiety scale is a yes or no self-report questionnaire relating to the following subscales of anxiety: physiological, worry/oversensitivity, and concentration. The scale also has a total manifest anxiety score.
•Linear regressions between everyday life fear scores at time point 1 and manifest anxiety at time point 1
•Physiological anxiety (F(1,114) =7.57, p<.01) •Worry/Oversensitivity (F(1,114) =8.19, p<.01) •Total manifest anxiety (F(1,114) =9.73, p<.005)
•Linear regressions between everyday life fear scores at time point 1 and manifest anxiety at time point 2
•Physiological anxiety (F(1,61)=4.32, p<.05) •Worry/Oversensitivity (F(1,61)=6.39, p<.05) •Total manifest anxiety (F(1,61)=6.70, p<.05) •We expected to confirm the relationship between
everyday life fear and manifest anxiety at time point 1. The worry/oversensitivity scale was expected to relate especially due to the amount of generalized worry in the everyday life fears survey.
•The second portion of this study confirmed the ability to predict later anxiety. This is important to note because some children may be more inclined for increased anxiety following a traumatic event.
•Of the 167 children examined in this study, only 115 were administered both scales at time point 1 and only 62 children were administered both scales at time point 2 due to logistical constraints.
•Linear regressions were run to determine the extent to which everyday life fear scores at time 1 month post-trauma could predict manifest anxiety at 1-month and 12-months post-trauma.
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Everyday Life Fear at Time 1 and Total Manifest Anxiety at Time 3
Everyday Life Fear at Time 1 and Total Manifest Anxiety at Time 1
