Tulane University, Department of Psychology, 2007 Percival Stern Hall, 6400 Freret Street, New Orleans, LA 70118, USA.
J Anxiety Disord. 2013 Mar;27(2):171-7. doi: 10.1016/j.janxdis.2012.12.004. Epub 2013 Jan 5.
A number of factors are believed to confer risk for anxiety development in children; however, cultural variation of purported risk factors remains unclear. We examined relations between controlling and rejecting parenting styles, parental modeling of anxious behaviors, child interpretive biases, and child anxiety in a mixed clinically anxious (n=27) and non-clinical (n=20) sample of Latino children and at least one of their parents. Families completed discussion-based tasks and questionnaires in a lab setting. Results indicated that child anxiety was: linked with parental control and child interpretative biases, associated with parental modeling of anxious behaviors at a trend level, and not associated with low parental acceptance. Findings that controlling parenting and child interpretive biases were associated with anxiety extend current theories of anxiety development to the Latino population. We speculate that strong family ties may buffer Latino children from detrimental effects of perceived low parental acceptance.
许多因素被认为会增加儿童焦虑的风险；然而，所谓的风险因素的文化差异仍不清楚。我们在一个混合了临床焦虑症患儿（n=27）和非临床患儿（n=20）及其至少一位家长的拉丁裔儿童样本中，考察了控制型和拒绝型教养方式、父母对焦虑行为的示范、儿童的解释偏差与儿童焦虑之间的关系。在实验室环境中，家庭完成了基于讨论的任务和问卷。结果表明，儿童焦虑与父母的控制和儿童的解释偏差有关，与父母对焦虑行为的示范呈趋势相关，与父母接受程度低无关。控制型教养方式和儿童解释偏差与焦虑有关的发现将焦虑发展的现有理论扩展到了拉丁裔人群。我们推测，强大的家庭纽带可以减轻拉丁裔儿童对父母接受程度低的不利影响。
