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Relations between family/friendship satisfaction and anxiety in a sample of children with phobic and anxiety disorders: exploring variability across age and ethnicity
Description
Although anxiety may be developmentally appropriate, it can become problematic in some youth. From an ecological perspective, social systems, like family and friendships, are theorized to influence developmental trajectories toward (mal)adjustment, but empirical evidence is scant with regard to the relative impact of subjective satisfaction with family and friendship on anxiety problem development. This thesis study used a subsample of approximately 50% Hispanic/Latino clinic-referred youth (n = 71, ages 6-16 years). Overall, results suggest that the effect of friendship satisfaction on anxiety varied as a function of age but not ethnicity, such that there was a significant negative relationship between child-reported friendship satisfaction and anxiety levels for older children (approx. 9 years and older) but not for younger children. The effect of family satisfaction on anxiety also varied as a function of age, such that older children showed a positive relation between child reported family satisfaction and parent reported anxiety. Furthermore, a positive relation between family satisfaction and anxiety was found only for the H/L children. Post hoc analyses regarding cultural underpinnings of this finding and implications for future research are discussed, as are the results regarding differences between parent and child reports of anxiety.
Date Created
2013
Contributors
- Humphrey, Julia (Author)
- Pina, Armando A (Thesis advisor)
- Doane, Leah (Committee member)
- Bradley, Robert (Committee member)
- Arizona State University (Publisher)
Topical Subject
- Developmental Psychology
- Anxiety in children
- Phobias in children
- Anxiety in adolescence
- Friendship in children
- Friendship in adolescence
- Hispanic American children--Family relationships.
- Hispanic American children
- Mexican American children--Family relationships.
- Mexican American children
- Hispanic American teenagers--Family relationships.
- Hispanic American teenagers
- Mexican American teenagers--Family relationships.
- Mexican American teenagers
Resource Type
Extent
viii, 65 p. : ill
Language
eng
Copyright Statement
In Copyright
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Peer-reviewed
No
Open Access
No
Handle
https://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.18675
Statement of Responsibility
by Julia Humphrey
Description Source
Viewed on Oct. 8, 2014
Level of coding
full
Note
thesis
Partial requirement for: M.A., Arizona State University, 2013
bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (p. 50-58)
Field of study: Psychology
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