Fig. 3
Trait anxiety moderated associations between state anxiety and neural responses to fearful versus happy faces. Results of the gray matter-masked, whole-brain linear mixed effects model. Trait anxiety moderated associations between state anxiety and differential neural responses to fearful versus happy faces (BOLDFear – BOLDHappy) in the (A) right amygdala-hippocampal complex, and (B) left inferior parietal lobe. Simple slopes depict the association between state anxiety and mean neural activation for children with low (-1 SD; STAIC-Trait = 31.2), mean (STAIC-Trait = 38.4), or high (+ 1 SD; STAIC-Trait = 45.7) trait anxiety. STAIC = State-Trait Anxiety Inventory for Children. Groups displaying slopes that significantly differ from 0 are indicated on the legend: ***p ≤ .001, **p ≤ .01, *p ≤ .05