Does Fear Responding during Threat Conditioning Prospectively Predict Anxiety Symptoms in Latina Children?

Abstact: Fifty-four parent-daughter dyads participated in this longitudinal study. Daughters’ (M_Age=9.90, ± 1.25 years, 100% Latina) fear responding during a Pavlovian threat conditioning paradigm at Wave 1 prospectively predicted parent-reported child anxiety symptoms at Wave 2, after controlling for daughters’ baseline anxiety levels.