Abstract
The present study was designed to explore the role of perceived parental rearing style in Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD). We examined the association between perceived parental overprotection and rejection rearing style with children’s SAD symptoms. The study was conducted with a normal sample of first grade school children. Findings indicate significant association between parental overprotection and SAD symptoms, means those children with SAD symptom perceived their mother as high overprotective than others. Also, we discovered parental rejection merely was not significant predictor, but it could modify the effect of parental overprotection.
Highlights
Due to limited evidence related to association between parental rearing and childhood anxiety as rated by children, there is no definitive conclusions about this aspect of the literature (Bogels & Brechman-Toussaint, 2006; Wood, McLeod, Sigman, Hwang & Chu, 2003)
The correlation coefficient between SAAS-C subscales and parental rejection, indicated that statistically significant correlation with FPI only, the effect size was very small. These results revealed that parental rejection related more to FPI in children (r= -.20, p < .05), means with higher score in parental rejection associated with lower score in fear of physical illness in children
The current study adds to recent literature by helping to investigate the association between perceived parental rearing style and Separation Anxiety Disorder (SAD) symptoms in children
Summary
Due to limited evidence related to association between parental rearing and childhood anxiety as rated by children, there is no definitive conclusions about this aspect of the literature (Bogels & Brechman-Toussaint, 2006; Wood, McLeod, Sigman, Hwang & Chu, 2003). It has been suggested that overprotection behavior from the mothers, excessively protects the children from all indicators of threat that related to child anxiety (Edwards & Rapee, 2007) and contribute to children’s anxiety, dependence, and social withdrawal (Wood et al, 2003). This limits children’s autonomy and fosters their dependency to parents, lead children to internalizing problems (Hudson & Rapee, 2001). The studies that have examined children’s report of current perceived parenting do not provide the strength evidence of associations between the parenting and childhood anxiety and it has not been established yet (Wood, 2006)
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