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      Examining the Hierarchical Influences of the Big-Five Dimensions and Anxiety Sensitivity on Anxiety Symptoms in Children

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          Anxiety sensitivity (AS), namely the fear of anxiety symptoms, has been described as a precursor of sub-threshold anxiety levels. Sexton et al. (2003) posited that increased AS would arise from an elevated neuroticism and that both would act as vulnerability factors for panic disorder (PD), obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), and generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) symptoms. Accordingly, this study aimed to (1) evaluate the applicability of this model to a pediatric population and (2) examine the influences of the other Big-Five personality dimensions on the four lower-order dimensions of AS (cognitive, physical, control, and physical) and on social phobia (SP), separation anxiety disorder (SAD) and depression symptoms. 200 children (104 girls) aged between 8 and 12 years old (mean age = 132.52 months, SD = 14.5) completed the Childhood Anxiety Sensitivity Index ( Silverman et al., 1991), the Big Five Questionnaire for Children ( Barbaranelli et al., 2003), and the Revised’s Children Anxiety and Depression Scale ( Chorpita et al., 2000). Regression analyses confirmed that AS and neuroticism together significantly predicted the presence of PD, OCD, and GAD symptoms but also SP, SAD, and depression symptoms. Moreover, neuroticism interacted with extraversion, conscientiousness and agreeableness to significantly predict SP, GAD, and depression. Surprisingly, the global AS score was only predicted by agreeableness, while AS dimensions also specifically related to openness. Finally, AS dimensions did not predict the presence of specific anxiety symptoms. To conclude, the predicting model of anxiety symptoms in children sets neuroticism and AS on the same level, with an unexpected influence of agreeableness on AS, raising the importance of other trait-like factors in the definition of such models. Moreover, AS should be considered as a unitary construct when predicting the presence of anxiety symptoms in children. Future interventions must consider these associations to help children detect and recognize the symptoms of their anxiety and help them to interpret them correctly.

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                Journal
                Front Psychol
                Front Psychol
                Front. Psychol.
                Frontiers in Psychology
                Frontiers Media S.A.
                1664-1078
                04 June 2019
                2019
                : 10
                : 1185
                Affiliations
                [1] 1Department of Cognitive Psychology and Neuropsychology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Mons , Mons, Belgium
                [2] 2National Fund for Human Research (FRESH), National Fund for Scientific Research , Brussels, Belgium
                [3] 3Interdisciplinary Research Center in Psychophysiology and Cognitive Electrophysiology , Mons, Belgium
                [4] 4Laboratory of Phonetics, Research Institute for Language Sciences and Technology, Faculty of Psychology and Education, University of Mons , Mons, Belgium
                [5] 5Laboratory C2S, University of Reims Champagne-Ardenne , Reims, France
                Author notes

                Edited by: Sarah Whittle, The University of Melbourne, Australia

                Reviewed by: Ayhan Bilgiç, Necmettin Erbakan University, Turkey; Nebi Sümer, Sabancı University, Turkey

                *Correspondence: Erika Wauthia, erika.wauthia@ 123456umons.ac.be

                This article was submitted to Personality and Social Psychology, a section of the journal Frontiers in Psychology

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                10.3389/fpsyg.2019.01185
                6558314
                31231271
                c928a411-0243-456a-a4b2-e4a75e484347
                Copyright © 2019 Wauthia, Lefebvre, Huet, Blekic, El Bouragui and Rossignol.

                This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

                History
                : 07 January 2019
                : 06 May 2019
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                Figures: 3, Tables: 0, Equations: 0, References: 126, Pages: 11, Words: 0
                Funding
                Funded by: Fonds De La Recherche Scientifique - FNRS 10.13039/501100002661
                Categories
                Psychology
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                Clinical Psychology & Psychiatry
                big-five personality,neuroticism,anxiety sensitivity,anxiety symptoms,children,vulnerability factors

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