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29-11-2017 | Original Article

Maternal Acceptance Moderates Fear Ratings and Avoidance Behavior in Children

Auteurs: Yaara Shimshoni, Wendy K. Silverman, Simon P. Byrne, Eli R. Lebowitz

Gepubliceerd in: Child Psychiatry & Human Development | Uitgave 3/2018

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Abstract

Avoidance is a hallmark feature of anxiety disorders, and avoidance-related impairment is often key to meeting diagnostic criteria. In children and adolescents with anxiety disorders, levels of avoidance vary considerably. Using a novel motion-tracking measure of avoidance behavior, we examined whether maternal acceptance, characterized by warm and accepting responses to child feelings and behaviors, moderates the association between fear of spiders and behavioral avoidance of spider stimuli in 103 clinically anxious children. As hypothesized, maternal acceptance significantly moderated children’s avoidance behavior. Child’s fear of spiders was significantly associated with behavioral avoidance when mothers were low in acceptance, as rated by either mothers or children. When mothers were high in acceptance, as rated by either mothers or children, child self-rated fear of spiders was not significantly associated with child avoidance. These are the first results to empirically demonstrate the moderating role of maternal acceptance in anxious children’s avoidance behavior.
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Titel
Maternal Acceptance Moderates Fear Ratings and Avoidance Behavior in Children
Auteurs
Yaara Shimshoni
Wendy K. Silverman
Simon P. Byrne
Eli R. Lebowitz
Publicatiedatum
29-11-2017
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Child Psychiatry & Human Development / Uitgave 3/2018
Print ISSN: 0009-398X
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-3327
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-017-0765-5