Anxiety in the family: a genetically informed analysis of transactional associations between mother, father and child anxiety symptoms

Duration: 3 mins

Description

Yasmin Ahmadzadeh discusses her paper 'Anxiety in the family: a genetically informed analysis of transactional associations between mother, father and child anxiety symptoms'.

Learning Objectives

1. This is the first genetically informed study to assess transactional associations between parent and child anxiety symptoms during middle childhood.
2. Results show environmentally mediated associations between parent and child anxiety symptoms.
3. Results support developmental theories suggesting that child anxiety symptoms can exert influence on caregivers, and mothers and fathers may play unique roles during the development of child symptoms.