title: Childrearing style of anxiety-disordered parents.
abstract: This study investigated whether anxiety-disordered (AD) parents differ in their childrearing style from non-disordered parents. A clinical sample of 36 AD parents with children aged 6-18 was compared with a normal control sample of 36 parents. Childrearing was assessed through parent report and child report. The results demonstrated significant differences in childrearing style between AD parents and non-disordered control parents, both from the perspective of the parent and from that of the child. AD parents reported a less nurturing and more restrictive rearing style than control parents. Their children did not report more rejection or less warmth than children of control parents; they did, however, report significantly more overprotection than children of control parents. The findings, from parental as well as child reports, apply to both AD mothers and AD fathers.
authors.affiliation: Academic Centre for Child and Adolescent Psychiatry Curium, Leiden University Medical Centre, Oegstgeest, The Netherlands. ilindhout@triversum.nl
authors.forename: Ingeborg
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Lindhout
authors.forename: Monica
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Markus
authors.forename: Thea
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hoogendijk
authors.forename: Sophie
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Borst
authors.forename: Ragna
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Maingay
authors.forename: Philip
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Spinhoven
authors.forename: Richard
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: van Dyck
authors.forename: Frits
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Boer
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001008:Anxiety Disorders / Q000453:epidemiology* / Q000523:psychology*; D002648:Child; D002668:Child Rearing; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010287:Parent-Child Relations; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D011795:Surveys and Questionnaires