The Significance of Self‐Reported Anxious Symptoms in First Grade Children: Prediction to Anxious Symptoms and Adaptive Functioning in Fifth Grade

TLDR

Self‑reported anxious symptoms in first‑grade children are relatively stable and are associated with adaptive functioning. The study aims to determine whether first‑grade self‑reported anxious symptoms predict anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in late elementary school. Researchers followed the same cohort of first‑grade children longitudinally to assess these relationships. First‑grade anxious symptoms significantly predicted anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in fifth grade.

Abstract

Abstract In an earlier study of an epidemiologically defined sample of first grade children, primarily between die ages of 5 and 6, self‐reported anxious symptoms proved relatively stable and were significantly related to adaptive Functioning. In the present study we follow that cohort of first graders longitudinally and assess the prognostic value of self‐reports of anxious symptoms in first grade with respect to anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in the late elementary school years or al about age 10. Fist grade anxious symptoms were found to have significant prognostic value in terms of levels of anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in fifth grade.In an earlier study of an epidemiologically defined sample of first grade children, primarily between die ages of 5 and 6, self‐reported anxious symptoms proved relatively stable and were significantly related to adaptive Functioning. In the present study we follow that cohort of first graders longitudinally and assess the prognostic value of self‐reports of anxious symptoms in first grade with respect to anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in the late elementary school years or al about age 10. Fist grade anxious symptoms were found to have significant prognostic value in terms of levels of anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in fifth grade.In an earlier study of an epidemiologically defined sample of first grade children, primarily between die ages of 5 and 6, self‐reported anxious symptoms proved relatively stable and were significantly related to adaptive Functioning. In the present study we follow that cohort of first graders longitudinally and assess the prognostic value of self‐reports of anxious symptoms in first grade with respect to anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in the late elementary school years or al about age 10. Fist grade anxious symptoms were found to have significant prognostic value in terms of levels of anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in fifth grade.In an earlier study of an epidemiologically defined sample of first grade children, primarily between die ages of 5 and 6, self‐reported anxious symptoms proved relatively stable and were significantly related to adaptive Functioning. In the present study we follow that cohort of first graders longitudinally and assess the prognostic value of self‐reports of anxious symptoms in first grade with respect to anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in the late elementary school years or al about age 10. Fist grade anxious symptoms were found to have significant prognostic value in terms of levels of anxious symptoms and adaptive functioning in fifth grade.