Associations Between Parents’ Cognitions About Child Anxiety and Emotion Dysregulation in Clinically Anxious Children: The Unique Contribution of Fathers
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Associations Between Parents’ Cognitions About Child Anxiety and Emotion Dysregulation in Clinically Anxious Children : The Unique Contribution of Fathers. / Islamiah, Nur; Breinholst, Sonja; Walczak, Monika A.
I: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 2024.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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T1 - Associations Between Parents’ Cognitions About Child Anxiety and Emotion Dysregulation in Clinically Anxious Children
T2 - The Unique Contribution of Fathers
AU - Islamiah, Nur
AU - Breinholst, Sonja
AU - Walczak, Monika A.
N1 - Publisher Copyright: © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature.
PY - 2024
Y1 - 2024
N2 - This study examined the influence of parental cognition, including attitudes, beliefs, and understanding of anxiety, on emotion dysregulation in children with anxiety disorder. A total of 47 clinically anxious children (6–17 years old) and their parents were involved in the current study. The mothers and fathers separately completed a self-reported questionnaire assessing their attitudes, beliefs, and understanding of their children’s anxiety, while the children completed a self-report questionnaire assessing emotion dysregulation. Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were used for data analysis. The results indicated that only fathers’ higher levels of unhelpful attitudes, beliefs, and understanding of anxiety were positively and significantly associated with greater emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in anxious children. Furthermore, fathers’ unhelpful cognitions regarding anxiety uniquely predicted their children’s emotion regulation difficulties. These findings highlight the importance of including fathers in preventive and therapeutic interventions in promoting ER abilities in children with anxiety disorder.
AB - This study examined the influence of parental cognition, including attitudes, beliefs, and understanding of anxiety, on emotion dysregulation in children with anxiety disorder. A total of 47 clinically anxious children (6–17 years old) and their parents were involved in the current study. The mothers and fathers separately completed a self-reported questionnaire assessing their attitudes, beliefs, and understanding of their children’s anxiety, while the children completed a self-report questionnaire assessing emotion dysregulation. Pearson correlation and hierarchical regression analyses were used for data analysis. The results indicated that only fathers’ higher levels of unhelpful attitudes, beliefs, and understanding of anxiety were positively and significantly associated with greater emotion regulation (ER) difficulties in anxious children. Furthermore, fathers’ unhelpful cognitions regarding anxiety uniquely predicted their children’s emotion regulation difficulties. These findings highlight the importance of including fathers in preventive and therapeutic interventions in promoting ER abilities in children with anxiety disorder.
KW - Child anxiety disorders
KW - Child emotion dysregulation
KW - Father
KW - Mother
KW - Parents’ cognitions about child anxiety
U2 - 10.1007/s10578-022-01487-5
DO - 10.1007/s10578-022-01487-5
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 36595111
AN - SCOPUS:85145501646
JO - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
JF - Child Psychiatry and Human Development
SN - 0009-398X
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