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- The study aimed to explore the relationship between child anxiety disorders and various family characteristics using the Family Environment Scale.
- A total of 144 mothers of children with anxiety disorders and 100 mothers of healthy children completed questionnaires, revealing significant differences in family dynamics, except for those with phobic anxiety disorder.
- Results indicated that children's anxiety disorders were associated with lower scores in aspects like family cohesion and achievement orientation, highlighting the critical role of family characteristics in influencing child anxiety.
Article Abstract
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relations between child anxiety disorder with different family characte ristics. METHODS Family characteristics were measured by family environment scale. 144 mothers of child with anxiety disorder and 100 mothers of health children were invited to fill out questionnaires. RESULTS There were obviously different family characteristics between health children and those with anxiety disorder except phobic anxiety disorder. The scores of cohesion, independence, achievement orientation and active recreational orientation in children with anxiety disorder were significantly lower than those in health children P<0.01). In 4 groups of children with anxiety disorder cohesion showed correlation with intellectual- cultural orientation r=0.9219, 0.8348, 0.8935, 0.9550 respectively, P<0.001). CONCLUSION: The importance of family characteristics must be emphasized for children with anxiety disorder.
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| http://dx.doi.org/10.3785/j.issn.1008-9292.2002.05.016 | DOI Listing |
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