Do Parental Behaviours Predict Anxiety Symptom Levels? A 3 Year Follow Up
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Do Parental Behaviours Predict Anxiety Symptom Levels? A 3 Year Follow Up. / Breinholst, Sonja; Walczak, Monika Anna; Esbjorn, Barbara Hoff.
In: Journal of Child and Family Studies, Vol. 28, No. 12, 12.2019, p. 3425-3432.Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review
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T1 - Do Parental Behaviours Predict Anxiety Symptom Levels? A 3 Year Follow Up
AU - Breinholst, Sonja
AU - Walczak, Monika Anna
AU - Esbjorn, Barbara Hoff
PY - 2019/12
Y1 - 2019/12
N2 - Objectives: Our study investigated the association between parental behaviour and anxiety in children and adolescents in a longitudinal 3-year follow-up design. Our study supplements widely used self-reports on parental behaviour with observations of the parent-child interactions. Methods: A community sample of 101 children and their mothers were included in the study. We hypothesized that anxiety symptoms in the child and mother at intake would influence levels of anxiety in the child at three-year follow-up. We also hypothesized that negative maternal behaviour both self-reported and observed would provide a unique variance in predicting increased levels of anxiety symptoms in the child after three years above and beyond child and maternal levels of anxiety symptoms at intake. Results: We found that children's anxiety symptom levels at intake, as well as female gender were significant and the most important contributors to the development of higher levels of anxiety symptoms at follow-up. Furthermore, observed maternal tension at intake significantly predicted child's anxiety levels at follow-up.Conclusion: Although maternal tension also significantly predicted higher levels of anxiety symptoms, the maternal variables were of less importance than child anxiety level at intake and female gender in predicting anxiety levels at follow-up.
AB - Objectives: Our study investigated the association between parental behaviour and anxiety in children and adolescents in a longitudinal 3-year follow-up design. Our study supplements widely used self-reports on parental behaviour with observations of the parent-child interactions. Methods: A community sample of 101 children and their mothers were included in the study. We hypothesized that anxiety symptoms in the child and mother at intake would influence levels of anxiety in the child at three-year follow-up. We also hypothesized that negative maternal behaviour both self-reported and observed would provide a unique variance in predicting increased levels of anxiety symptoms in the child after three years above and beyond child and maternal levels of anxiety symptoms at intake. Results: We found that children's anxiety symptom levels at intake, as well as female gender were significant and the most important contributors to the development of higher levels of anxiety symptoms at follow-up. Furthermore, observed maternal tension at intake significantly predicted child's anxiety levels at follow-up.Conclusion: Although maternal tension also significantly predicted higher levels of anxiety symptoms, the maternal variables were of less importance than child anxiety level at intake and female gender in predicting anxiety levels at follow-up.
KW - Parental rearing behaviour
KW - Anxiety
KW - Children
KW - Parents
KW - Follow-up
U2 - 10.1007/s10826-019-01524-3
DO - 10.1007/s10826-019-01524-3
M3 - Journal article
VL - 28
SP - 3425
EP - 3432
JO - Journal of Child and Family Studies
JF - Journal of Child and Family Studies
SN - 1062-1024
IS - 12
ER -
ID: 231955029