Perceived Peer Victimization Predicts Anxiety Outcomes in a Prevention Program for Offspring of Anxious Parents.

ABSTRACT: Offspring of anxious parents are at heightened risk for developing anxiety disorders. Preventive interventions for these youths are promising but not universally effective, creating a need to identify outcome predictors. Peer experiences (e.g., peer victimization, social support) are associated with youth anxiety trajectories but have been relatively unexplored in this context. Thus, this study tested whether peer experiences predicted anxiety-related outcomes in families participating in a randomized controlled trial of a child anxiety prevention program for families with a clinically anxious parent. Parental anxiety severity was also examined as a moderator of relations between peer experiences and subsequent child anxiety. Participants were 121 families (child M age = 8.69, 55.90% girls

SUBMITTER: Schleider JL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6237653 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature