Characterizing the association between parenting and adolescent social phobia

Abstract

Paternal behavior appears particularly relevant for SP. The pattern of maternal overprotection, paternal rejection and lower emotional warmth was observed in SP only, suggesting that its detailed assessment provides a promising opportunity for targeted prevention and intervention in SP.

The role of the mother–child relationship for anxiety disorders and depression: results from a prospective-longitudinal study in adolescents and their mothers

“…Previous research on familial and parental risk factors for anxiety and depression suggests that especially adverse parental rearing styles and unfavorable characteristics of the parent-child relationship increase the risk for offspring anxiety and depression [11,14,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][35][36][37][38][39][40][41]. Particularly the role of parental rearing for offspring anxiety and depression has been extensively studied [11,14,[29][30][31][32][33][34].…”

“…Particularly the role of parental rearing for offspring anxiety and depression has been extensively studied [11,14,[29][30][31][32][33][34]. While parental control was found to be more strongly associated with offspring anxiety than parental rejection, parental rejection was shown to be more strongly associated with offspring depression than parental control [29,30].…”

“…That is, valence is conceptually related to constructs such as warmth, affection, and responsiveness, while potency is conceptually related to constructs such as autonomy and low/moderate parental monitoring and control. However, child valence and potency refer to child characteristics/behaviors and this is important, since most prior studies on the mother-child relationship focused on parental characteristics/behaviors and their relation to offspring mental health [11,14,[25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33][34][36][37][38][39][40]. For instance, mother-child-connectedness (which is closely related to child valence) was mostly conceptualized as the child's perception of maternal care and communication [28,54,55].…”

Adolescent Social Phobia in Clinical Services

“…In contrast, Knappe et al ( 2012 ) reported distinct and contrasting patterns of parental dysfunction, such that maternal overprotection and paternal rejection and lower emotional warmth predicted SAD in their children. Interestingly, the crossover relationships were not found to be true-paternal overprotection and maternal rejection or lack of warmth failed to signifi cantly predict SAD in their children (Knappe et al 2012 ).…”

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“…Ruiter and van Ijzendoorn (1992) also carried out research confirming the relationship between attachment issues and agoraphobia. In terms of social phobia, there are a number of recent studies that confirm the association of insecure attachment with the development of social phobia (Knappe et al 2012). Bowlby (1973) demonstrated the impact of poor attachment with school phobia and agoraphobia; Klein (1964) reported on a sample of female adult patients with panic and agoraphobia having a history of separation anxiety or school phobia.…”