Mothers’ and fathers’ internalizing symptoms may influence children’s anxiety symptoms differently.
To explore the relationship between parental internalizing symptoms and children’s anxiety symptoms in a clinical sample of children with anxiety disorders.
The sample was recruited through community mental health clinics for a randomized controlled anxiety treatment trial. At pre-intervention, children (
Both mother and father rated internalizing symptoms predicted children’s self-rated anxiety levels (adj.
Clinicians should incorporate parental level of internalizing symptoms in their case conceptualizations.