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Published on: September 19, 2019
Metacognitive Transmission Between Parents and Children in the Context of Anxiety Disorders
Laura Marie Köcher1, Silke Schlömer-Böttner2, Hanna Christiansen3
1Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, Department of Psychology, Philipps-Universität Marburg, Frankfurter Straße 35, 35037, Marburg, Germany. laura.koecher@uni-marburg.de.
Abstract:
One in ten children is affected by an anxiety disorder. Current state of research shows that transgenerational transmission as well as positive (POS) and negative (NEG) metacognitive beliefs are relevant in the context of anxiety disorders in youth. We investigated whether transgenerational transmission is also evident in conjunction with POS and NEG and cross-sectionally surveyed POS, NEG, anxiety symptoms and worry in 8-16-year-old children and adolescents with anxiety disorders (n = 71) and non-clinical controls (n = 40) and one of their parents. Our results revealed significant transgenerational correlations for NEG in both samples, and for POS in the non-clinical sample only. Mediation analysis showed that children's NEG did at least partly mediate the relationship between parents' NEG and children's anxiety and worry. Children's and parents' POS did not correlate in either sample with children's anxiety and worry. Further research on the transgenerational transmission of metacognition and longitudinal data is needed.
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