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Dipietro JA, Voegtline KM, Pater HA, Costigan KA. Predicting child temperament and behavior from the fetus. Dev Psychopathol. 2018 Aug;30(3):855-870. doi: 10.1017/S0954579418000482. PubMed PMID: 30068417.

Troller-Renfree SV, Buzzell GA, Pine DS, Henderson HA, Fox NA. Consequences of Not Planning Ahead: Reduced Proactive Control Moderates Longitudinal Relations Between Behavioral Inhibition and Anxiety. J Am Acad Child Adolesc Psychiatry. 2019 Jan 8. pii: S0890-8567(19)30006-1. doi: 10.1016/j.jaac.2018.06.040. [Epub ahead of print] PubMed PMID: 30768398.

OBJECTIVE:Children with the temperament of Behavioral Inhibition (BI) face increased risk for developing an anxiety disorder later in life. However, not all children with BI manifest anxiety symptoms, and cognitive-control-strategy use may moderate the pathway between BI and anxiety. Individuals vary widely in the strategy used to instantiate control; the present study examined whether a more planful style of cognitive control (i.e. proactive control) or a more impulsive strategy of control (i.e. reactive control) moderates the association between early BI and later anxiety symptoms.

METHOD: Participants were part of a longitudinal study examining the relations between BI (measured at 2-3 years) and later anxiety symptoms (measured at 13 years). Cognitive control strategy use was assessed at age 13 using the AX variant of the Continuous Performance Task (AX-CPT).

RESULTS: BI in toddlerhood significantly predicted increased use of a more reactive cognitive control style in adolescence. Additionally, cognitive control strategy moderated the relation between BI and anxious symptoms, such that reliance on a more reactive strategy predicted higher levels of anxiety for children high in BI.

CONCLUSION The present study is the first to identify the specific control strategy that increases risk for anxiety. Thus, is it not cognitive control per se, but the specific control strategy children adopt that may increase risk for anxiety later in life. These findings have important implications for future evidence-based interventions given that they suggest an emphasis reducing reactive cognitive control and increasing proactive cognitive control may reduce anxious cognition

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