期刊名称：Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
印刷版ISSN：2245-8875
出版年度：2020
卷号：8
期号：1
页码：18-24
DOI：10.21307/sjcapp-2020-003
语种：English
出版社：Scandinavian Journal of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Psychology
摘要：Background:Mothers’ and fathers’ internalizing symptoms may influence children’s anxiety symptoms differently.Objective:To explore the relationship between parental internalizing symptoms and children’s anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of children with anxiety disorders.Method:The sample was recruited through community mental health clinics for a randomized controlled anxiety treatment trial. At pre-intervention, children (n= 182), mothers (n= 165), and fathers (n= 72) reported children’s anxiety symptoms. Mothers and fathers also reported their own internalizing symptoms. The children were aged 8 to 15 years (Mage= 11.5 years, SD = 2.1, 52.2% girls) and all had a diagnosis of separation anxiety, social phobia, and/or generalized anxiety disorder. We examined parental internalizing symptoms as predictors of child anxiety symptoms in multiple regression models.Results:Both mother and father rated internalizing symptoms predicted children’s self-rated anxiety levels (adj.R2= 22.0%). Mother-rated internalizing symptoms predicted mother-rated anxiety symptoms in children (adj.R2= 7.0%). Father-rated internalizing symptoms did not predict father-rated anxiety in children.Conclusions:Clinicians should incorporate parental level of internalizing symptoms in their case conceptualizations.
