“…Theoretical models of parenting and youth anxiety suggest that certain parenting behaviors, such as overinvolvement or overprotectiveness, increase youth anxiety through several pathways (see Schleider & Weisz, 2017). One such pathway is that greater control and less autonomy granting increase these youths’ external locus of control and decrease effective coping (Ginsburg, Schleider, Yun Tein, & Drake, 2018). Several studies have looked specifically at the positive parenting construct of “involvement” and found that high levels of caregiver involvement were associated with youth internalizing symptoms (e.g., Colder, Lochman, & Wells, 1997; Otto et al, 2016).…”