Parental internalizing symptoms as predictors of anxiety symptoms in clinic-referred children
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Published Online: Mar 18, 2020
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.21307/sjcapp-2020-003
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Family factors, child and parent symptoms in a sample of 182 children with anxiety disorders
| Family factors | Symptom measures and diagnosis | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Family composition | % | Principal diagnosis | % | |
| Two-parent household | 57.5 | Social phobia | 46.4 | |
| Single-parent household | 19.9 | Separation anxiety disorder | 32.6 | |
| Biological parent and step-parent | 13.3 | Generalized anxiety disorder | 21.0 | |
| Foster family | 1.6 | Child anxiety symptoms | SD | |
| Not reported | 7.7 | SCAS-C ( | 36.0 | 16.6 |
| Family social class | % | SCAS-M ( | 34.9 | 12.8 |
| High | 30.4 | SCAS F ( | 33.0 | 14.1 |
| Medium | 51.4 | Parent symptoms | SD | |
| Low | 7.7 | DASS-M ( | 12.0 | 14.5 |
| Not reported | 10.5 | DASS-F ( | 8.4 | 11.5 |
Correlations between child (n = 182) anxiety symptoms, parent internalizing symptoms (n = 165 mothers; 72 fathers), and child age
| Variables | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1. SCAS-C | 182 | – | 0.26*** | 0.27* | 0.09 | 0.35** | 0.08 | 0.21** |
| 2. SCAS-M | 165 | – | 0.77*** | 0.27*** | 0.17 | −0.11 | −0.10 | |
| 3. SCAS-F | 75 | – | −0.04 | 0.23 | −0.02 | −0.04 | ||
| 4. DASS-M | 165 | – | 0.22 | 0.02 | −0.02 | |||
| 5. DASS-F | 65 | – | 0.04 | 0.05 | ||||
| 6. Child age | 182 | – | 0.20** | |||||
| 7. Child gender | 182 | – |
Multiple regression models predicting child anxiety symptoms for children, mothers and fathers
| Dependent variables | Predictors | CI | SE | Adj. | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Model 1 ( | 0.22 | 4.90 | |||||||
| SCAS-Child | DASS-M | 0.40 | (0.04-0.77) | 0.18 | 0.28 | 2.219 | 0.031 | ||
| DASS-F | 0.48 | (0.11-0.84) | 0.18 | 0.33 | 2.643 | 0.011 | |||
| Child age | −0.46 | (−2.68-1.76) | 1.10 | −0.05 | −0.147 | 0.679 | |||
| Child gender | 6.48 | (−1.78-14.74) | 4.11 | 0.19 | 1.575 | 0.122 | |||
| Model 2 ( | 0.07 | 5.03 | |||||||
| SCAS-Mother | DASS-M | 0.24 | (0.10-0.37) | 0.07 | 0.27 | 3.45 | 0.001 | ||
| Child age | −0.59 | (−1.51-0.33) | 0.46 | −0.10 | −1.27 | 0.206 | |||
| Child gender | −1.82 | (−5.75-2.11) | 1.99 | −0.07 | −0.92 | 0.361 | |||
| Model 3 ( | 0.01 | 1.25 | |||||||
| SCAS-Father | DASS-F | 0.28 | (−0.01-0.58) | 0.15 | 0.23 | 1.902 | 0.063 | ||
| Child age | −0.97 | (−1.80-1.60) | 0.85 | −0.01 | −0.114 | 0.910 | |||
| Child gender | −1.64 | (−8.36-5.08) | 3.36 | −0.06 | −0.489 | 0.627 |