Is adult separation anxiety associated with offspring risk for internalizing psychiatric problems?

ABSTRACT:

Background

Awareness of adult separation anxiety (ASA) is growing, but there is a dearth of knowledge about how separation anxiety aggregates in families. We examined the intergenerational associations of separation anxiety and other forms of internalizing problems in an American community sample of 515 predominantly white children and their parents.

Methods

Children's separation anxiety (CSA), depression, and other anxiety disorders were modeled as latent factors using diagnoses from interviews and symptom scores from questionnaires completed by mothers, fathers, and children when children were 9 years old and again 3 years later. Parents' separation anxiety was assessed via a questionnaire and parents' other anxiety, depressive, and substance use disorders were assessed wi

SUBMITTER: Finsaas MC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10187056 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature