Universität zu Köln

Flasinski, Tabea, Sommer, Katharina ORCID: 0000-0002-3856-6697, Schneider, Silvia ORCID: 0000-0003-0698-8411, Margraf, Juergen, Pflug, Verena ORCID: 0000-0002-6313-7296, Lippert, Michael W. ORCID: 0000-0002-5223-0137, Christiansen, Hanna, Cwik, Jan C., Hamm, Alfons O., In-Albon, Tina ORCID: 0000-0002-2070-8458, Knappe, Susanne, Pauli, Paul, Richter, Jan, Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna and Adolph, Dirk (2022). Identifying characteristics of non-completers in fear conditioning paradigms with children and adolescents. J. Exp. Psychopathol., 13 (3). LONDON: SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD. ISSN 2043-8087

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Abstract

The number of studies on fear conditioning in children and adolescents has increased in recent years. Most of these studies exclusively focus on data of completers while dropout rates, reasons for dropout, and specific characteristics of non-completers are underreported. This study systematically investigated data of 283 children and adolescents between 8 and 17 years (M = 11.10, SD = 2.14) undergoing a differential fear conditioning paradigm using a female scream as unconditioned stimulus (US). The sample included 230 children and adolescents with a current primary anxiety disorder (separation anxiety disorder, social anxiety disorder, and specific phobia) and 53 non-anxious controls. The dropout rate was 24.1%. The most common reason to discontinue was being afraid of the US (59.1%) followed by the startle probe being too loud (15.2%). Logistic regressions revealed that younger age and a present anxiety disorder predicted dropout. There seem to be distinct characteristics potentially predicting dropout from fear conditioning paradigms. Thus, interpretability and generalizability of those paradigms are limited when non-completers are not considered. Future research should conscientiously look at these data more closely and investigate paradigms that work independent of age and diagnostic status.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Flasinski, Tabea UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Sommer, Katharina UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-3856-6697 UNSPECIFIED Schneider, Silvia UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0003-0698-8411 UNSPECIFIED Margraf, Juergen UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pflug, Verena UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-6313-7296 UNSPECIFIED Lippert, Michael W. UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-5223-0137 UNSPECIFIED Christiansen, Hanna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Cwik, Jan C. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Hamm, Alfons O. UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED In-Albon, Tina UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0002-2070-8458 UNSPECIFIED Knappe, Susanne UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Pauli, Paul UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Richter, Jan UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Tuschen-Caffier, Brunna UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED Adolph, Dirk UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-690437
DOI:	10.1177/20438087221108291
Journal or Publication Title:	J. Exp. Psychopathol.
Volume:	13
Number:	3
Date:	2022
Publisher:	SAGE PUBLICATIONS LTD
Place of Publication:	LONDON
ISSN:	2043-8087
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language ANXIETY; EXTINCTION; DISORDERS; RELIABILITY; THREAT; YOUTH Multiple languages Psychology, Clinical; Psychiatry Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/69043