Parent to Offspring Fear Transmission via Modeling in Early Life: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.

ABSTRACT: Infants can acquire fears vicariously by observing parents' fearful reactions to novel stimuli in everyday situations (i.e., modeling). To date, no systematic or meta-analytic review examined the role of modeling in parent-child transmission of fear and avoidance in early life. In our systematic review and meta-analysis, we aimed to investigate the effect of modeling parents' fearful reactions on infants' acquisition of fear and avoidance of novel stimuli and explore the moderation of this effect by child behavioral inhibition (BI) and parent trait anxiety. The search conducted in Web Of Science, Pubmed, Embase, and PsycINFO revealed 23 eligible studies for the systematic review and 19 for the meta-analysis. Eligible studies included published studies that measured infant fear and avoidanc

SUBMITTER: Nimphy CA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10465674 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature