Anxiety-Promoting Parenting Behaviors: A Comparison of Anxious Mothers and Fathers

Teetsel, Rebekah N.; Ginsburg, Golda S.; Drake, Kelly L.

doi:10.1007/s10578-013-0384-8

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“…Lamontagne et al demonstrated high anxiety scores in the children of parents; who also had increased anxiety levels preoperatively [15]. It was suggested that children experienced lower anxiety levels if less anxious parents accompanied them [16] [17]. In our study, mothers had higher preoperative STAI-S scores than fathers.…”

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The Association between Preoperative Parental Anxiety and Emergence Agitation in Preschoolers

Erkılıç¹,

Kesimci²,

Döğer³

et al. 2017

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Introduction: The preoperative distress and anxiety experienced by preschoolers are associated with an increased incidence of troubled recovery from anesthesia. However, influences of parental anxiety on children at different stages of the surgical processes are not clear. The aim of this study was to evaluate any existing association between preoperative parental anxiety and emergence agitation in a pediatric surgery population. Materials and Methods: A total of 60 children ASA class I or II, aged 3 -12 years old, undergoing adenotonsillectomy with sevoflurane, were included in the study. Before surgery, we used State-Trait Anxiety Inventory S-T (STAI S-T) to assess parental anxiety. Emergence agitation of the children was assessed with Watcha scale and recorded every 10 min of first 30 min of the postoperative period. Parents were contacted 24 hours after the surgery to evaluate their satisfaction, post operative pain and any side effect observed in the children. Results: Preoperatively, the mean STAI-S scores of mothers were significantly higher than those of fathers (p < 0.05). The details of surgery, anesthesia and length of hospital stay after surgery were found to be associated with these scores. The STAI-T scores of mothers and fathers were similar (p > 0.05). The children had the highest agitation scores at 10 th postoperative minutes with an incidence of 73.9%. There was no correlation between parental anxiety and emergence agitation. Logistic regression analysis showed that low educational level of the parent was the only independent factor for state anxiety (OR: 8.96, 95% CI: 1.50 -40.35, p = 0.030). Discussion: In this study, we observed that education level of the parents might affect their preoperative anxiety. The factors influential in parental anxiety were not correlated with pediatric emergence agitation in this study.

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confidence: 54%

The Association between Preoperative Parental Anxiety and Emergence Agitation in Preschoolers

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Kesimci²,

Döğer³

et al. 2017

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“…Evidence for this hypothesis derives from large national studies of the A-B connection showing that poor marital adjustment (high conflict, low satisfaction) is associated with depression and anxiety in men and women (McShall & Johnson, 2015;Whisman, Robustelli, & Labrecque, 2018). Completing the second leg of a mediation analysis B-C), studies show that parental depression and anxiety are consistently linked with parenting behavior that is harsh, intrusive, or distant (Lovejoy, Graczyk, O'Hare, & Neuman, 2000;Teetsel, Ginsburg, & Drake, 2014). The question, then, is whether either or both of these two paths also explain links between high couple conflict and anxious or harsh parenting (A-C).…”

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Fathers’ and mothers’ attachment styles, couple conflict, parenting quality, and children’s behavior problems: an intervention test of mediation

Cowan

Pruett

et al. 2019

Attachment & Human Development

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“…Fathers may emphasize independence and challenge their children more than mothers (Bögels & Phares, 2008), and they have been shown to display more overcontrol (completing a task, directing child actions) than mothers during more neutral parent-child interactions (Teetsel, Ginsburg, & Drake, 2014). Finally, this initial work on understanding the ETAN dimension focused on establishing it as a meaningful way to conceptualize certain parenting behaviors with inhibited toddlers.…”

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Maternal Encouragement to Approach Novelty: A Curvilinear Relation to Change in Anxiety for Inhibited Toddlers

Kiel

Premo

Buss

2015

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Various parenting behaviors (e.g., protection, intrusiveness, sensitivity) have been shown to impact young children's anxiety development, particularly for temperamentally inhibited children. These behaviors have sometimes predicted both increases and decreases in anxiety in inhibited children, suggesting that linear relations may not adequately model their influence. In the current study, we proposed the dimension of encouragement to approach novelty to characterize parenting behavior ranging from very little encouragement (i.e., protective behavior) to very strong encouragement (i.e., intrusiveness), with gentle encouragement residing in the middle. In a sample of 110 toddlers (48 female, 62 male) and their mothers, the linear and curvilinear effects of this parenting dimension were investigated in relation to change in child separation anxiety and shyness from age 2 to age 3. Inhibited temperament was also investigated as a moderator. Encouragement to approach novelty displayed the hypothesized curvilinear relation to change in separation anxiety, but not shyness, at extreme levels of inhibited temperament. Toddlers increased in separation anxiety when mothers' encouragement resided at either extreme end of the continuum, with lower child anxiety occurring when mothers displayed behavior closer to the middle of the continuum. Implications for the study of parenting outcomes for inhibited toddlers are discussed.

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Anxiety-Promoting Parenting Behaviors: A Comparison of Anxious Mothers and Fathers

Cited by 50 publications

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The Association between Preoperative Parental Anxiety and Emergence Agitation in Preschoolers

The Association between Preoperative Parental Anxiety and Emergence Agitation in Preschoolers

Fathers’ and mothers’ attachment styles, couple conflict, parenting quality, and children’s behavior problems: an intervention test of mediation

Maternal Encouragement to Approach Novelty: A Curvilinear Relation to Change in Anxiety for Inhibited Toddlers

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