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The Relationship Between Different Parenting Typologies in Fathers and Mothers and Children’s Anxiety

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Research on the role of parental rearing behaviors in the development of children’s anxiety problems has predominantly adopted a dimensional approach studying the effects of isolated parenting behaviors such as overprotection and rejection, while mainly focusing on the mother. Our study was set up to identify parenting typologies of both mothers and fathers, and to explore their relationship with children’s anxiety symptoms. Three-hundred-and-ninety non-clinical Portuguese children aged 8–12 years completed a self-report questionnaire on anxiety disorder symptoms, while their fathers (27–64 years of age) and mothers (24–65 years of age) filled in two scales on parental rearing behaviors as well as an index of parental anxiety. Cluster analysis revealed three parenting typologies that were similar for mothers and fathers, and were labeled as overinvolved, disengaged, and supportive parenting. Only the disengaged typology of mothers was associated with higher levels of anxiety symptoms on children. Disengaged parents and Overinvolved fathers were associated with higher levels of parental anxiety whereas overinvolved parents evidenced more anxiety/worry about the child. These results suggest that the study of parenting typologies, contextualized within a cultural background, are an invaluable approach because it can be used to explore the effects that different combinations of various parenting behaviors may have on childhood anxiety.

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This work is financed by national funds by FCT—Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia by a grant awarded to the first author (SFRH/7737/2011) and under the project PTDC/PSI-PCL/122007/2010.

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    Ana Beato, Ana Isabel Pereira & Luísa Barros

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Beato, A., Pereira, A.I., Barros, L. et al. The Relationship Between Different Parenting Typologies in Fathers and Mothers and Children’s Anxiety. J Child Fam Stud 25, 1691–1701 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-015-0337-x

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