Parental Anxiety and Child Symptomatology: An Examinzation of Additive and Interactive Effects of Parent Psychopathology
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The current study examined relations between parent anxiety and child anxiety, depression, and externalizing symptoms. In addition, the study tested the additive and interactive effects of parent anxiety with parent depression and externalizing symptoms in relation to child symptoms. Forty-eight parents with anxiety disorders and 49 parents without any psychiatric disorder participated with one of their children (ages 6 to 14 years; 46.4% male; 75.8% Caucasian). Parent anxiety was related to both child anxiety and depression, but not child externalizing symptoms. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that only parent externalizing symptoms had additive effects, beyond parent anxiety symptoms, in relation to child anxiety symptoms. Further, parent anxiety symptoms moderated the relationship between parent and child externalizing symptoms, such that the strength of this relationship was reduced in the presence of high levels of parent anxiety symptoms. Results of this study illuminate the role of parent comorbidity in understanding relations between parent and child symptoms.
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Parent internalizing symptoms, including anxiety, are associated with greater youth anxiety across multiple studies.
“Parent internalizing symptoms, including anxiety, is associated with greater youth anxiety across multiple studies [14,15,16].”
From A Qualitative Study of Participant Feedback on an Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Group-Based Intervention for Parents of Youth with Anxiety Disorders. (2026) · cites this paper as [14]
The Results (Correlations Among Parent and Child Symptoms; page not provided) report that parent anxiety symptoms were significantly associated with child anxiety, and the Introduction describes similar findings across several high-risk studies. The broader reference to parent internalizing symptoms is not fully supported: the Results (Multivariate Analyses; page not provided) found that parent depression symptoms did not significantly improve prediction of child anxiety beyond parent anxiety. (LLM, conf=0.82)
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- Authors
- Burstein, M., Ginsburg, G. S., & Tein, J.-Y.
- Affiliations
- Johns Hopkins University (US)
- Arizona State University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Burstein, Marcy
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology
- Published
- 2010-04-30
- Volume
- 38
- Issue
- 7
- Pages
- 897-909
- ISSN
- 0091-0627 (ISSN-L)
- 1573-2835
- PMC
- PMC3362924
- OpenAlex
- W2052913078
- Cited by
- 125
- References
- 65
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- FWCI
- 5.28
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Licence
- www.springer.com/tdm (tdm)
- Locations
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (K23 MH63427-02, K23MH063427, T32MH020033, R01MH077312)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Health Sciences › Medicine › Public Health, Environmental and Occupational Health › Maternal Mental Health During Pregnancy and Postpartum
- Keywords
- parental anxiety, childhood anxiety, childhood depression, child externalizing symptoms, parental depression, additive and interactive effects, moderation
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Child Behavior Disorders, Depressive Disorder, Female, Humans, Internal-External Control, Interview, Psychological, Male, Parents, Psychopathology, Baltimore, Child of Impaired Parents
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