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22-12-2023 | Anxiety

Are comorbidities of poor reading related to elevated anxiety in children?

Authors: Genevieve McArthur, Amy Doust, Erin Banales, Serje Robidoux, Saskia Kohnen

Published in: Annals of Dyslexia | Issue 1/2024

Abstract

Studies of the association between dyslexia and mental health have typically tried to minimise the influence of dyslexia comorbidities on the outcomes. However, in the “real world”, many children with dyslexia have these comorbidities. In this study, we tested (1) if children with dyslexia with three common comorbidities — inattention, hyperactivity, language difficulties — experience more anxiety than children with dyslexia without these comorbidities; and (2) if any type of comorbidity is related to a certain type of anxiety (reading, social, generalised, or separation). The data of 82 children with dyslexia (mean age = 9 years and 4 months; 25 girls) were analysed using Fisher exact tests, which revealed that those with inattention (40.54%) or hyperactivity (42.30%) were statistically significantly more likely to experience elevated anxiety than children with dyslexia without these comorbidities (8.11 and 14.28%, respectively). This was not the case for language difficulties (24.5% versus 30%). Spearman ρ correlations (α = .05) indicated significant moderate relationships between inattention and reading anxiety (.27), social anxiety (.37), and generalised anxiety (.24); and between hyperactivity and social anxiety (.24) and generalised anxiety (.28). There were no significant correlations between language and anxiety. Examination of highly inter-correlated variables suggested a specific relationship between one type of comorbidity (inattention) and one type of anxiety (reading anxiety).

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Title: Are comorbidities of poor reading related to elevated anxiety in children?
Authors: Genevieve McArthur
Amy Doust
Erin Banales
Serje Robidoux
Saskia Kohnen
Publication date: 22-12-2023
Publisher: Springer US
Keywords: Anxiety
Dyslexia
Published in: Annals of Dyslexia / Issue 1/2024
Print ISSN: 0736-9387
Electronic ISSN: 1934-7243
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11881-023-00292-6

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