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Fears in Clinic-Referred Children: Relations With Child Anxiety Sensitivity, Maternal Overcontrol, and Maternal Phobic Anxiety

Ollendick, Thomas H., Horsch, Laura M.·2007·Behavior Therapy
DOI 10.1016/j.beth.2006.12.001
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Relations among maternal phobic anxiety, maternal overcontrol, child anxiety sensitivity, and child level of fear were explored in 156 children referred to an outpatient clinic for psychological evaluation. In addition, these relations were examined separately in analyses of age, gender, and diagnostic status. Overall, age, gender, and child anxiety sensitivity, along with maternal ratings of an overly controlling parenting strategy were significant predictors of levels of fear. These four variables predicted approximately 50% of the variance associated with fear levels. Surprisingly, maternal phobic anxiety was not a significant predictor in this sample of clinic-referred children. In separate analyses of age, gender, and diagnostic status (presence or absence of an anxiety disorder), anxiety sensitivity was a significant predictor of fear levels for both older and younger children, for both boys and girls, and for both children with and without an anxiety disorder. However, maternal overly controlling parenting strategy was significant only for the younger children (and not the older ones) and only for girls (and not boys). Moreover, maternal overcontrol was a marginally significant predictor for the anxiety-disorder group (and not the non-anxiety-disordered group). Results are discussed within a developmental framework, and implications for treatment are explored.

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  • The development and maintenance of fears and phobias is multi-determined, arising from a combination of reciprocal biopsychosocial influences including child factors, parent factors, and learning experiences.

    “The development and maintenance of fears and phobias is multi-determined, arising from a combination of reciprocal biopsychosocial in fl uences including child factors (e.g., temperament, genetics, and cognitive processing of threat), parent factors (e.g., parental psychopathology, parenting practices), and learning experiences (e.g., stress, trauma, fear conditioning) (Kane et al., 2015; Ollendic”

    From Specific Phobia in Young Children: Associations between the Origins of Fear and Clinical Expression of Phobia Symptoms. (2025) · cites this paper as Ollendick & Horsch, 2007

  • Overinvolved/controlling parenting and low parental warmth are associated with the development and course of anxiety symptoms and phobias, including greater distress and avoidance behaviours in children.

    “Indeed, overinvolved/controlling parenting and low parental warmth are associated with the development and course of anxiety symptoms and phobias, including greater distress and avoidance behaviours in children (Kane et al., 2015; Murray et al., 2009; Ollendick & Horsch, 2007).”

    From Specific Phobia in Young Children: Associations between the Origins of Fear and Clinical Expression of Phobia Symptoms. (2025) · cites this paper as Ollendick & Horsch, 2007

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Authors
Ollendick, T. H., & Horsch, L. M.
Affiliations
Virginia Tech (US)
Corresponding author
Ollendick, Thomas H.
ORCID
Ollendick, Thomas H.
Venue
Behavior Therapy
Publisher
Elsevier BV
Published
2007-12
Volume
38
Issue
4
Pages
402-411
ISSN
0005-7894 (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1016/j.beth.2006.12.001
OpenAlex
W2029990574
Cited by
50
References
43
Citations by year
2025: 4 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 2 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 2 · 2019: 1 · 2018: 4 · 2017: 3 · 2016: 3 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 4 · 2013: 2 · 2012: 5
FWCI
3.27
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Licence
www.elsevier.com/tdm/userlicense/1.0/ (tdm)
Locations
  • Behavior Therapy (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child Therapy and Development
Keywords
children's fears, anxiety sensitivity, parenting styles, clinic-referred children, childhood anxiety disorders, age and gender differences, developmental framework
MeSH terms
Adolescent, Anxiety Disorders, Child, Fear, Female, Humans, Male, Maternal Behavior, Mother-Child Relations, Mothers, Phobic Disorders, Referral and Consultation, Severity of Illness Index, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

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