BACKGROUND Few studies have evaluated interventions to decrease a woman's anxiety after she receives an abnormal mammogram (i.e., one with a recommendation for follow-up). We performed a controlled trial to compare the effects of both an immediate reading of mammograms (i.e., a radiology intervention) and of an educational intervention that taught skills to cope with anxiety on the psychologica...

Teachers’ anxiety about an academic domain, such as math, can impact students’ learning in that domain. We asked whether this relation held in the domain of spatial skill, given the importance of spatial skill for success in math and science and its malleability at a young age. We measured 1stand 2nd-grade teachers’ spatial anxiety (N= 19) and students’ spatial skill (N= 132). Teachers’ spatial...

The purpose of this study was to examine the association between anxiety and overall academic performance (AP) in children with reading disorder (RD). This two-year longitudinal cohort included 128 participants (aged 7–14 years) RD. Anxiety symptoms were evaluated using School Scale – Teacher Report for first year eight-item Spence Children's second year. AP assessed by teacher ratings progress...

Abstract Introduction Sleep during childhood has a major impact on physiological, psychological, and cognitive development. Limited research focused vulnerable populations such as children in foster care. Foster care endure placement instability, which may contribute to disrupted sleep patterns unpredictability around bedtime (Leathers, et al., 2019). The Fostering study examined caregivers’ pe...

A recent study by Packman, Onslow, Coombes and Goodwin (2001) employed a non-word-reading paradigm to test the contribution of the lexical retrieval process to stuttering. They consider that, with this material, the lexical retrieval process could not contribute to stuttering and that either anxiety and/or the motor demand of reading are the governing factors. This paper will discuss possible p...

OBJECTIVE To examine the relationship of maternal trait anxiety with diabetes regulation among adolescents with type 1 diabetes. METHODS Adolescents and their mothers completed surveys assessing trait anxiety, maternal involvement in diabetes care, adolescent management skills, autonomous motivations, mood state, and absenteeism due to diabetes. HbA1c readings, used to assess metabolic contro...

BACKGROUND Male volunteers entered an immersive virtual reality that depicted a party, where they were approached by a lone virtual woman who initiated a conversation. The goal was to study how socially anxious and socially confident men would react to this event. Interest focused on whether the socially anxious participants would exhibit sustained anxiety during the conversation or whether thi...