{"id":106165,"date":"2019-03-20T04:54:03","date_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/research-examines-complications-during-birth-and-link-to-later-social-anxiety-in-children\/"},"modified":"2019-03-20T04:54:03","modified_gmt":"2019-03-20T04:54:03","slug":"research-examines-complications-during-birth-and-link-to-later-social-anxiety-in-children","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/research-examines-complications-during-birth-and-link-to-later-social-anxiety-in-children\/","title":{"rendered":"Research examines complications during birth and link to later social anxiety in children"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"summary\">\n<p><\/p>\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>A new study published in <em>Infant and Child Development<\/em> indicates that complications during birth may increase the risk that children will develop social anxiety by their pre-teen years.<\/p>\n<p>For the study, 149 children aged nine to 12 years were screened for behavioral inhibition&#8211;a tendency to exhibit a fearful disposition and withdrawal in unfamiliar contexts and situations&#8211;and assessed for social anxiety symptoms using parent- and child-reports. Investigators found that perinatal complications were associated with higher levels of behavioral inhibition and social anxiety symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>Additionally, analyses suggested that behavioral inhibition acted as a pathway between birth complications and social anxiety symptoms.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This study sets the stage for future longitudinal work examining whether childhood temperament is a developmental path by which birth complications lead to social anxiety symptoms,&#8221; said lead author Dr. Santiago Morales, of the University of Maryland.\n<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\">###<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Media Contact<\/strong><br \/>Penny Smith<br \/>newsroom@wiley.com<br \/>http:\/\/dx.<wbr>doi.<wbr>org\/<wbr>10.<wbr>1002\/<wbr>icd.<wbr>2130 <i class=\"fa fa-sign-out\"><\/i><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/wbr><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new study published in Infant and Child Development indicates that complications during birth may increase the risk that children will develop social anxiety by their pre-teen years. For the study, 149 children aged nine to 12 years were screened for behavioral inhibition&#8211;a tendency to exhibit a fearful disposition and withdrawal in unfamiliar contexts and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_override_bookmark_settings":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_review":[],"enable_review":"","type":"","name":"","summary":"","brand":"","sku":"","good":[],"bad":[],"score_override":"","override_value":"","rating":[],"price":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[251],"tags":[387,293,309,334,464],"class_list":["post-106165","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health","tag-behavior","tag-medicine-health","tag-mental-health","tag-public-health","tag-stress-anxiety"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106165","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106165\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bioengineer.org\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}