Effects of Parental Behavior on Child Anxiety Regulation

描述（由申请人提供）：父母的沟通方式是否影响 最初表现出高度恐惧的儿童的情绪调节， 焦虑吗尽管最近的相关研究表明， 父母的沟通行为，如过度的灾难化， 还有孩子的恐惧和焦虑的表现，目前还不清楚，如果父母 沟通行为直接影响孩子？的能力来调节这些 情绪干预研究可以测试实验性操纵是否 目前的家庭互动模式会影响孩子吗？调节恐惧的能力 和焦虑拟议中的研究将提供一个初步的实验测试 父母沟通行为和孩子之间的关系S 焦虑的调节。约40名7至13岁的临床焦虑青少年将接受 被随机分配到一个儿童焦虑的家庭干预项目中， 问题，其中包括广泛的家长沟通培训，或孩子 没有家长培训的干预计划。家庭的相对影响 干预计划与儿童干预计划，以改善 父母的沟通行为，如灾难化， 评估。其次，父母沟通行为的变化对父母沟通行为的影响， 孩子们？人类调节恐惧和焦虑的能力将受到考验。观察到 养育子女和儿童焦虑以及生理唤醒将作为 主要结果指标。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Does parental communication style affect emotion regulation among children who initially exhibit high levels of fear and anxiety? Although recent correlational research has demonstrated a linkage between parental communication behaviors, such as excessive catastrophizing, and children?s manifestations of fear and anxiety, it is not clear if parental communication behaviors directly influence children?s ability to regulate these emotions. Intervention studies can test whether experimentally manipulating current family interaction patterns affects children?s ability to regulate fear and anxiety. The proposed research will provide a preliminary experimental test of the relationship between parental communication behavior and children?s regulation of anxiety. Some 40 clinically anxious youth, aged 7-13, will be randomly assigned to a family intervention program for childhood anxiety problems, which includes extensive parent communication training, or a child intervention program without parent-training. The relative impact of the family intervention program versus the child intervention program for improving parental communication behaviors -- such as catastrophizing -- will be evaluated. Then, the impact of changes in parental communication behaviors on children?s ability to regulate fear and anxiety will be tested. Observed parenting and child anxiety as well as physiological arousal will serve as primary outcome measures.