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Cognitive Bias as a Mediator in the Relation Between Fear-Enhancing Parental Behaviors and Anxiety Symptoms in Children: A Cross-Sectional Study.
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Child psychiatry and human development [Child Psychiatry Hum Dev] 2017 Feb; Vol. 48 (1), pp. 82-93. - Publication Year :
- 2017
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Abstract
- The present cross-sectional study explored the relations between fear-enhancing parenting behaviors (modeling and threat information transmission) and children's cognitive biases and anxiety symptoms. Participants were 258 children aged 7-12 years (132 boys and 126 girls), and their mothers (n = 199) and/or fathers (n = 117). Children and parents completed the Parental Enhancement of Anxious Cognitions questionnaire, which measures parental modeling and threat information transmission, while children also filled in a scale for assessing anxiety symptoms. In addition, children conducted a number of computerized tasks for measuring confirmation and interpretation bias. The data indicated that both biases mediated the relationship between threat information transmission (of both parents) and children's anxiety symptoms. Only interpretation bias significantly mediated the relationship between modeling (of mothers) and anxiety symptoms. These findings give partial support for the hypothesis that cognitive biases play a mediating role in the relation between fear-enhancing parental behaviors and children's anxiety symptoms.
- Subjects :
- Anxiety Disorders psychology
Behavior Observation Techniques methods
Child
Cognitive Dysfunction
Cross-Sectional Studies
Fathers psychology
Female
Humans
Male
Psychopathology
Surveys and Questionnaires
Anxiety diagnosis
Anxiety etiology
Anxiety psychology
Cognition
Fear psychology
Maternal Behavior psychology
Parent-Child Relations
Parenting psychology
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 1573-3327
- Volume :
- 48
- Issue :
- 1
- Database :
- MEDLINE
- Journal :
- Child psychiatry and human development
- Publication Type :
- Academic Journal
- Accession number :
- 27286719
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-016-0655-2