Anxiety and cognitive performance in adolescent women with disruptive behavior disorders.
Comparing 36 disruptive behavior-disordered and 40 normal female adolescents, we found higher levels of anxiety and poorer performance on a measure of verbal fluency in the clinical sample. No group differences were found on a nonverbal measure of reflectivity nor on a measure of interpersonal cognitive problem solving. Nor was evidence found for an hypothesized anxiety-related performance decrement among disruptive behavior-disordered youth. However, anxiety induction facilitated performance across groups on interpersonal cognitive problem solving.
Haggerty
J C
JC
St. John's University, Jamaica, NY 11439, USA.
Nevid
J S
JS
Moulton
J L
JL
D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D019958:Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003071:Cognition; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011340:Problem Solving