Emotional disorders of asthmatic children.
Depression, anxiety, defiance and hostility in sixty asthmatic and non-asthmatic children of school age, all with the same familial and constitutional allergic background, were measured with the Mother-Child Questionnaire. In the sample as a whole it was found that boys were more disturbed than girls and high-dependent children were more disturbed than low-dependent children. However, asthmatic low-dependent children were significantly more disturbed than non-asthmatic low-dependent children, whereas asthmatic high-dependent children tend to be less disturbed than non-asthmatic high-dependent children. The findings show that emotional disorders in the asthmatic children are associated with pathogenic maternal family relationship patterns.
D000342:Affective Symptoms / Q000209:etiology*; D001007:Anxiety / Q000209:etiology; D001249:Asthma / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D003858:Dependency, Psychological; D003863:Depression / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006791:Hostility; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008425:Maternal Behavior; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D012737:Sex Factors; D013315:Stress, Psychological