Department of Psychology, Tulane University, School of Science and Engineering, New Orleans, LA 70118-5636, United States.
J Anxiety Disord. 2011 Apr;25(3):450-5. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2010.11.009. Epub 2010 Nov 19.
The present study examined effects of maternal anxiety, child age, and their interaction on mother-child anxiety reporting disagreement while taking into account the direction of each informant's report relative to the other. Participants were 41 dyads of mothers and clinically anxious children aged 7-13. A hierarchical regression revealed a significant interaction between maternal anxiety and child age (β = .30, p < .05). A graph of this interaction indicated that when maternal anxiety is high and the child is older, maternal report of anxiety is relatively higher, and when maternal anxiety is high and the child is younger, child report of anxiety is relatively higher. When maternal anxiety is low, the reporting discrepancy is relatively stable across age. Results may help explain previous mixed findings regarding effects of age and maternal anxiety on reporting discrepancies. Possible explanations for these results are discussed.
本研究考察了母亲焦虑、儿童年龄及其相互作用对母子焦虑报告不一致的影响，同时考虑了每个信息提供者的报告相对于另一个报告的方向。参与者为 41 对患有临床焦虑的 7-13 岁儿童的母亲。分层回归显示，母亲焦虑和儿童年龄之间存在显著的交互作用（β=.30，p <.05）。该交互作用的图表表明，当母亲焦虑程度高且孩子年龄较大时，母亲对焦虑的报告相对较高，而当母亲焦虑程度高且孩子年龄较小时，孩子对焦虑的报告相对较高。当母亲焦虑程度较低时，报告差异在整个年龄范围内相对稳定。研究结果可能有助于解释先前关于年龄和母亲焦虑对报告差异影响的混合研究结果。对这些结果的可能解释进行了讨论。
