Preschool Environment and Temperament as Predictors of Social and Nonsocial Anxiety Disorders in Middle Adolescence

Of the few risk factors identified for the development of anxiety disorders, behavioral inhibition has received the strongest support. However, studies examining prediction of anxiety disorder from inhibition over time have not been extensive, and very few have assessed the impact of inhibition assessed early in life on anxiety in adolescence.The current study assessed 3 risk factors among 91 children when they were approximately 4 years of age,...