NDLI: Parental Reactivity and the Link Between Parent and Child Anxiety Symptoms

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Author	Borelli, Jessica L. Rasmussen, Hannah F. John, H. Kate St. West, Jessica L. Piacentini, John C.
Copyright Year	2015
Abstract	Ample research documents a link between parent and child anxiety, yet little work has examined parents’ and children’s emotional reactivity for their association with parent–child anxiety transmission. Using a community sample, here we evaluate parents’ subjective emotional reactions to imagining their children feeling afraid and examine (1) their link with parental anxiety and (2) whether this reactivity moderates the association between parent anxiety and children’s subjective and physiological reactivity [resting respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA)]. Finally, we evaluate whether these two indices of children’s reactivity act as indirect effects between parental anxiety and child anxiety, and whether this association is moderated by parents’ reactivity to the child’s fear (moderated mediation). School-aged children (N = 75) and their primary caregivers reported on their anxiety symptoms. Parents and children then completed parallel paradigms in which they imagined the child feeling afraid and reported on their reactivity. Children’s resting RSA was assessed as they watched a nature video. The association between parental anxiety and children’s subjective and physiological reactivity was moderated by parents’ reactivity, such that only when parents reported high reactivity was there a significant association between parental anxiety and children’s self-reported and physiological reactivity. Further, children’s physiological reactivity acted as an indirect effect in the link between parents’ and children’s anxiety symptoms, but only for parents who reported high levels of reactivity to child fear. Results are discussed in terms of their contribution to the literature on parent–child relationships and anxiety.
Starting Page	3130
Ending Page	3144
Page Count	15
File Format	PDF
ISSN	10621024
Journal	Journal of Child and Family Studies
Volume Number	24
Issue Number	10
e-ISSN	15732843
Language	English
Publisher	Springer US
Publisher Date	2015-01-23
Publisher Place	New York
Access Restriction	One Nation One Subscription (ONOS)
Subject Keyword	Anxiety Reactivity Parenting Respiratory sinus arrhythmia Emotion Child and School Psychology Social Sciences Sociology
Content Type	Text
Resource Type	Article
Subject	Life-span and Life-course Studies Developmental and Educational Psychology

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