Perceived family environments of depressed and anxious children: child's and maternal figure's perspectives.
This study examined perceived environment among families with a depressed, depressed and anxious, anxious, or normal child from the 4th to 7th grades. Fifty-one such children were classified according to criteria from the K-SADS and a set of self-ratings of depression and anxiety. Results showed that children in all three diagnostic groups, and to a lesser extent their mothers, experienced their families as more distressed on a host of dimensions relative to controls. In addition, significant differences were found between families with a depressed and anxious child and those with an anxious child. Discriminant function analyses revealed that 68.63% of the youngsters could be classified correctly into depressed and anxious groups on the basis of their family ratings alone.
Stark
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Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas, Austin 78712.
Humphrey
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Crook
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Lewis
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D000293:Adolescent; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D010553:Personality Development; D010556:Personality Tests; D011594:Psychometrics; D012307:Risk Factors; D012931:Social Environment