Fathers’ Challenging Parenting Behavior Prevents Social Anxiety Development in Their 4-Year-Old Children: A Longitudinal Observational Study

Majdandžić, Mirjana; Möller, Eline L.; Vente, Wieke de; Bögels, Susan M.; Boom, D.C. van den

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“…There is also growing evidence that the role fathers play in the development of childhood anxiety may be different from the role played by mothers (Bögels and Phares 2008;Majdandžic et al 2014;Möller et al 2014). For example, Majdandžić et al (2014) reported that increases in fathers' challenging behavior during interactions with their 2-year-old children (e.g., encouraging the child to exceed his/her comfort zone) predicted decreases in children's social anxiety over the following 2 years, whereas increases in mothers' challenging behavior predicted increases in children's anxiety. Given the overwhelming focus on mothers in the reviewed studies, it is unclear whether the findings apply to fathers in the same way.…”

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Parents’ Verbal Communication and Childhood Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Percy

Creswell

Garner

et al. 2015

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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Parents' verbal communication to their child, particularly the expression of fear-relevant information (e.g., attributions of threat to the environment), is considered to play a key role in children's fears and anxiety. This review considers the extent to which parental verbal communication is associated with child anxiety by examining research that has employed objective observational methods. Using a systematic search strategy, we identified 15 studies that addressed this question. These studies provided some evidence that particular fear-relevant features of parental verbal communication are associated with child anxiety under certain conditions. However, the scope for drawing reliable, general conclusions was limited by extensive methodological variation between studies, particularly in terms of the features of parental verbal communication examined and the context in which communication took place, how child anxiety was measured, and inconsistent consideration of factors that may moderate the verbal communication-child anxiety relationship. We discuss ways in which future research can contribute to this developing evidence base and reduce further methodological inconsistency so as to inform interventions for children with anxiety problems.

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Parents’ Verbal Communication and Childhood Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Percy

Creswell

Garner

et al. 2015

Clin Child Fam Psychol Rev

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“…With respect to overinvolvement, we hypothesized that both paternal and maternal overinvolvement would be associated with more infant anxiety. Based on the results of the study of Majdandžić et al (2013), we hypothesized that paternal challenging parenting behavior would be associated with less infant anxiety, whereas maternal challenging behavior would not be associated with infant anxiety or even with more infant anxiety. Third, we explored which parenting behavior is the best predictor of infant anxiety (i.e., challenging parenting behavior or overinvolvement).…”

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Parental Anxiety, Parenting Behavior, and Infant Anxiety: Differential Associations for Fathers and Mothers

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Most studies investigating the role of parenting behavior in the intergenerational transmission of anxiety from parents to children have focused on mothers. However, recent research suggests that mothers and fathers may parent differently and may differentially affect the development of child anxiety. Theoretical models propose that anxious parents engage in more anxiety-provoking and less anxietyreducing parenting behavior than non-anxious parents. However, findings are inconsistent, possibly because most studies have not differentiated between anxiety disorders. Therefore, it remains unclear which specific anxiety disorders are linked to parenting behavior. This study examined (1) whether symptoms of specific parental anxiety disorders are linked to overinvolvement and challenging parenting behavior towards infants; and (2) the differential relationship of maternal/paternal overinvolvement and challenging parenting behavior with infant anxiety. Parents of 81 infants (10-15 months) completed the Overinvolvement and Challenging parenting behavior (CPB) scales of the Comprehensive Parenting Behavior Questionnaire, the Screen for Child Anxiety Related Emotional Disorders-Adult version, and the Fear scale of the Infant Behavior Questionnaire-Revised. Linear regressions showed that mothers' generalized anxiety disorder symptoms were associated with less CPB and more overinvolvement, whereas fathers' social anxiety disorder symptoms were associated with less CPB and more overinvolvement. Moreover, paternal, but not maternal, CPB was associated with less infant anxiety, and overinvolvement with more infant anxiety. Findings suggest that (1) different dimensions of paternal/maternal anxiety are linked to their parenting behavior; (2) maternal/paternal parenting behaviors are differentially associated with infant anxiety.

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“…Also, a 6-month longitudinal study of children aged 2 and 4 showed that lower levels of paternal, but not maternal, autonomy granting was PARENTAL INFLUENCE ON CHILDHOOD ANXIETY 9 significantly associated with greater child anxiety symptoms; and fathers' challenging parental behavior predicted less subsequent social anxiety in their oldest child, whereas maternal challenging behavior was associated with more subsequent social anxiety (Majdandzic, Möller, de Vente, Bögels, & van den Boom, 2014).…”

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“…To our knowledge, there are only three longitudinal studies that have looked at the relationships between both maternal and paternal anxiety symptoms/behaviors and preschool (study age ranges 2 to 5) child anxiety symptoms (Edwards, Rapee, & Kennedy, 2010;Majdandzic, et al, 2014;McShane & Hastings, 2009). These studies showed that child anxiety symptoms were significantly predicted by specific rearing behaviors of both mothers and fathers.…”

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Maternal and paternal influences on the developmental trajectory of childhood anxiety symptoms: a genetically sensitive investigation

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Lester²,

Cartwright‐Hatton³

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One theory suggests that anxious fathers may pose a greater environmental influence on childhood anxiety than anxious mothers. This study uses the Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS) to test rearing parent anxiety influences from mothers and fathers on child anxiety symptoms between 18 months and 4.5, while considering inherited influences. The EGDS is a longitudinal, multisite study of adopted children recruited through US adoption agencies, and their adoptive and birth parents. Bayesian latent growth models of the trajectory of child anxiety symptoms over 3 years predicted from inherited (birth parent anxiety) and adoptive parent anxiety influences were compared for maternal and paternal measures. Parameter estimates and their HPD intervals provided evidence that the slope for anxiety symptoms between 18 and 54 months is trivially affected by both rearing parent anxiety and inherited influences from both mothers and fathers. Similarly, rearing parental anxiety and inherited influence from both mothers and fathers had only a very small effect on the intercept for growth (anxiety symptoms at 18 months old). The evidence for differences between mothers and fathers for any of these parameters was, at best, weak. Contrary to theoretical predictions, anxiety in the rearing father is unlikely to have a more important role in fostering child anxiety symptoms than that in the rearing mother.

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Fathers’ Challenging Parenting Behavior Prevents Social Anxiety Development in Their 4-Year-Old Children: A Longitudinal Observational Study

Cited by 88 publications

References 41 publications

Parents’ Verbal Communication and Childhood Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Parents’ Verbal Communication and Childhood Anxiety: A Systematic Review

Parental Anxiety, Parenting Behavior, and Infant Anxiety: Differential Associations for Fathers and Mothers

Maternal and paternal influences on the developmental trajectory of childhood anxiety symptoms: a genetically sensitive investigation

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