Parental autonomy granting and child perceived control: effects on the everyday emotional experience of anxious youth.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Childhood anxiety is associated with low levels of parental autonomy granting and child perceived control, elevated child emotional reactivity and deficits in child emotion regulation. In early childhood, low levels of parental autonomy granting are thought to decrease child perceived control, which in turn leads to increases in child negative emotion. Later in development, perceived control may become a more stable, trait-like characteristic that amplifies the relationship between parental autonomy granting and child negative emotion. The purpose of this study was to test mediation and moderation models linking parental autonomy granting and child perceived control with child emotional reactivity and emotion regulation in anxious youth.

Methods

Clinically anxious

SUBMITTER: Benoit Allen K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4861695 | biostudies-literature | 2016 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature