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- Anxiety disorders in children are often linked to maternal negative emotional reactivity (NER) and deficits in reappraisal, which influence emotion regulation during parent-child interactions.
- Mothers of children with anxiety disorders demonstrated higher levels of NER and struggled with reappraisal compared to mothers of non-anxious children.
- The findings indicate that both maternal anxiety and difficulties in reappraisal significantly impact the level of anxiety in children, highlighting the importance of addressing these maternal factors in interventions for childhood anxiety disorders.
Article Abstract
Background: Anxiety disorders are among the most common psychopathologies in childhood. Two underlying contributors to child anxiety disorders (ADs) are negative emotional hyper-reactivity and deficits in reappraisal, a cognitive strategy of emotion regulation. Given that emotion regulation develops in the context of parent-child interaction, the aim of this study was to fill a research gap regarding the association between maternal negative emotional reactivity (NER) and reappraisal and child anxiety by examining (a) whether mothers of children with ADs display abnormalities in emotional reactivity and reappraisal compared to mothers of children without ADs; (b) whether maternal NER and reappraisal are associated with child anxiety; and (c) whether maternal reactivity and reappraisal significantly explain the variance in the level of child anxiety beyond the level of maternal anxiety.
Method: Forty-nine mothers and their AD children (aged 10-17) were assessed at admission to an anxiety disorder clinic and were compared to a control group of 42 mothers and their non-anxious (NA) children. Child and maternal anxiety were assessed, as well as maternal NER and reappraisal.
Results: Mothers of AD children showed a higher NER as well as reappraisal deficits compared to the control group. Self-rated child anxiety was associated with maternal deficits in reappraisal. The variance in child anxiety was significantly explained by the level of maternal anxiety as well as maternal reappraisal deficits.
Conclusions: This study suggests that maternal NER and reappraisal play an important role in child anxiety and should be considered in prevention and intervention of childhood ADs.
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