Parental Beliefs About Child Anxiety as a Mediator of Parent and Child Anxiety
Parental Beliefs About Child Anxiety as a Mediator of Parent and Child Anxiety
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DOI：
10.1007/s10608-009-9255-9
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发表时间：
2011-02-01
影响因子：
2.8
通讯作者：
Chorpita, Bruce F.
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作者：
Francis, Sarah E.;Chorpita, Bruce F.
以前的研究一直支持孩子和父母焦虑之间的联系。然而，对这种联系的调节者却不太了解。最近的研究表明，父母的认知在理解父母和孩子的焦虑之间的关系的重要性。本调查，采用横断面设计，评估潜在的中介作用的一个特定的父母的认知变量，即父母对孩子的焦虑的信念，在父母和孩子的焦虑之间的关系。在一个样本的临床转介青年（n = 103）与各种临床表现，父母的信念对孩子的焦虑的危害性显着介导的父母和孩子的焦虑之间的关系。这一发现提供了初步支持的作用，父母对儿童焦虑的信念在调解父母和儿童之间的联系焦虑。
Previous research has consistently supported a link between child and parental anxiety. Less well understood, however, are mediators of this association. Recent work has suggested the importance of parental cognitions in understanding the relationship between parental and child anxiety. The present investigation, employing a cross-sectional design, evaluates the potential mediational role of a specific parental cognitive variable, namely parental beliefs about the child's anxiety, in the relationship between parental and child anxiety. Among a sample of clinic-referred youth (n = 103) with a variety of clinical presentations, parental beliefs about the harmfulness of the child's anxiety significantly mediated the relationship between parent and child anxiety. This finding provides preliminary support for the role of parental beliefs about child anxiety in mediating the link between parent and child anxiety.