Maternal Modeling of Coping: Relation to Child Anxiety

Autor:	Janet Woodruff-Borden, Amy F. Buckley
Rok vydání:	2006
Předmět:	Coping (psychology) Social environment Coping behavior medicine.disease behavioral disciplines and activities Social relation Developmental psychology Clinical Psychology El Niño medicine Anxiety medicine.symptom Psychology Child coping Social Sciences (miscellaneous) Anxiety disorder
Zdroj:	Child & Family Behavior Therapy. 28:59-80
ISSN:	1545-228X 0731-7107
DOI:	10.1300/j019v28n04_04
Popis:	The present study investigated maternal coping behaviors in clinically anxious and control mothers during two mildly stressful parent-child interaction tasks. We hypothesized that anxious mothers would demonstrate decreased problem-focused and increased emotion-focused coping. We further expected that children of anxious mothers would also demonstrate decreased problem-focused coping, and that maternal anxiety would predict child coping. A total of 49 mother-child dyads participated in the present study. Anxious mothers engaged in significantly less adaptive coping (i.e., active coping, modeling) and significantly greater maladaptive coping (i.e., venting of emotion, negative emotion, discussion of emotion) than did non-anxious mothers. In addition, anxious mothers were rated by independent observers as less able to cope with the tasks. Children of the two groups did not differ with respect to type of coping displayed. Implications of these findings for the impact of parental anxiety on children ...
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