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    Childhood behavioral inhibition and attachment: Links to generalized anxiety disorder in young adulthood
    with Magdalena A. Zdebik, Katherine Pascuzzo, and Jean-François Bureau
    Frontiers in Psychology 13. 2022.
    Generalized anxiety disorder is under-treated yet prevalent among young adults. Identifying early risk factors for GAD would contribute to its etiological model and identify potential targets for intervention. Insecure attachment patterns, specifically ambivalent and disorganized, have long been proposed as childhood risk factors for GAD. Similarly, childhood behavioral inhibition has been consistently associated with anxiety disorders in adulthood, including GAD. Intolerance of uncertainty, the…Read more