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- Title
Links between life course trajectories of family dysfunction and anxiety during middle childhood.
- Authors
Pagani, Linda; Japel, Christa; Vaillancourt, Tracy; Côté, Sylvana; Tremblay, Richard; Pagani, Linda S; Côté, Sylvana; Tremblay, Richard E
- Abstract
Using data from three waves of a large Canadian data set, we examine the relationship between two middle childhood trajectory variables, family dysfunction and anxiety. We draw upon family systems theory and developmental psychopathology, while attempting to expand their boundaries by capitalizing on the strengths within both approaches. Our data treatment strategy, guided by the life course analytical framework, included separate multivariate logits to examine this relationship, with and without the extent to, which selected explanatory risk variables predicted belonging to the highest family dysfunction trajectory. We also explored possible interactions between anxiety and explanatory risk variables. Supporting our hypothesis, a prolonged duration of high doses of family dysfunction was associated with the most extreme developmental trajectories of anxious behavior during middle childhood for both boys and girls. This relationship prevailed above and beyond the influence of other correlates of family dysfunction such as marital transition, socioeconomic status, family size, and depressive symptoms experienced by the informant (mostly mothers).
- Subjects
ANXIETY in children; FAMILY relations; FAMILY systems theory; PATHOLOGICAL psychology; SOCIAL status; FAMILY size; DEPRESSION in children; DOMESTIC relations; CHILD psychology; ANXIETY diagnosis; DIAGNOSIS of mental depression; ANXIETY; COMPARATIVE studies; MENTAL depression; FAMILIES; LIFE change events; LOCUS of control; LONGITUDINAL method; RESEARCH methodology; MEDICAL cooperation; PARENT-child relationships; RESEARCH; SEX distribution; STATISTICS; SOCIOECONOMIC factors; EVALUATION research; CROSS-sectional method
- Publication
Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 2008, Vol 36, Issue 1, p41
- ISSN
0091-0627
- Publication type
journal article
- DOI
10.1007/s10802-007-9158-8