Parental social anxiety disorder prospectively predicts toddlers' fear/avoidance in a social referencing paradigm

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作者
Aktar, Evin [1 ]
Majdandzic, Mirjana [2 ]
de Vente, Wieke [2 ]
Bogels, Susan M. [2 ]
机构
[1] Univ Amsterdam, Cognit Sci Ctr Amsterdam, NL-1018 VZ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[2] Univ Amsterdam, Res Inst Child Dev & Educ, Amsterdam, Netherlands
关键词
Social referencing; parental anxiety; father's role; behavioral inhibition; BEHAVIORAL-INHIBITION; INDIVIDUAL-DIFFERENCES; CHILD ANXIETY; RISK; TEMPERAMENT; INFANT; PSYCHOPATHOLOGY; TRANSMISSION; ASSOCIATION; ETIOLOGY;
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10.1111/jcpp.12121
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B844 [发展心理学(人类心理学)];
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040202 ;
摘要
BackgroundAnxiety runs in families. Observational learning of anxious behavior from parents with anxiety disorders plays an important role in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety. We investigated the link between parental anxiety (parental lifetime anxiety disorders and expressed parental anxiety) and toddler fear/avoidance during social referencing (SR) situations. MethodToddlers (N=117) participated with both parents (with lifetime social anxiety disorder, other nonsocial anxiety disorders, lifetime comorbid social and other anxiety disorders, or without anxiety disorders) in a longitudinal study. Behavioral inhibition (BI) was measured at 12months via observational tasks. At 30months, children were confronted with a stranger and a remote-control robot in SR situations, separately with each parent. Children's fear and avoidance, and parents' expressions of anxiety, encouragement, and overcontrol were observed. ResultsToddlers of parents with lifetime social anxiety disorder (alone and comorbid with other anxiety disorders) showed more fear/avoidance in SR situations than toddlers of parents without anxiety disorders, while the effect of other anxiety disorders alone was not significant. Although expressed parental anxiety at 30months in SR situations did not significantly predict toddlers' fear/avoidance, higher levels of expressed anxiety at 12months in SR situations by parents with comorbid social and other anxiety disorders predicted higher levels of fear/avoidance. BI at 12months predicted toddlers' fear/avoidance only with mothers, but not with fathers. ConclusionsParental lifetime social anxiety disorders may be a stronger predictor of children's fear/avoidance than parents' expressions of anxiety in SR situations in toddlerhood. End of infancy may be a sensitive time for learning of anxiety from parents with comorbid lifetime social and nonsocial anxiety disorders in SR situations. Fathers are as important as mothers in the transmission of anxiety via SR. Furthermore, children may act relatively free of their early temperament in SR situations with fathers.
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