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Parenting styles and anxiety disorders in children – A study in an Albanian clinical population

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

V. Alikaj ,
V. Skendi ,
B. Zenelaj  and
B. Allkoja
V. Alikaj*
Affiliation:
University of Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Neuroscience, Tirana, Albania
V. Skendi
Affiliation:
University hospital center “Mother Tereza”, Psychiatric service, Neuroscience, Tirana, Albania
B. Zenelaj
Affiliation:
University hospital center “Mother Tereza”, Psychiatric service, Neuroscience, Tirana, Albania
B. Allkoja
Affiliation:
University hospital center “Mother Tereza”, Psychiatric service, Neuroscience, Tirana, Albania
*
*Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

About 20% of children suffer from an anxiety disorder and symptoms may persist in adulthood. About 13 in every 100 children from 9 to 17 years old experience anxiety disorders, girls seem more vulnerable than boys. Theoretical models of anxiety emphasize the effect of parenting on development and maintenance of child anxiety.

Objectives

This research aims to study the nature of correlation between parenting styles and anxiety in children who attend Tirana Child & Adolescent Psychiatric Service.

Methods

One hundred and seventy-five children and 175 their parents filled Spence Children Anxiety Scale (SCAS) and Parenting Styles & Dimensions Questionnaire (PSDQ) was found a significant correlation between parenting styles and anxiety in children.

Conclusions

Parental overprotection produces vulnerable children who become adults ready to give up in front of life difficulties therefore; it is necessary parents’ awareness in practicing a balance in their parenting styles, in order to reduce children's anxiety.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

Type
e-Poster viewing: child and adolescent psychiatry
Information
European Psychiatry , Volume 41 , Issue S1: Abstract of the 25th European Congress of Psychiatry , April 2017 , pp. S429
Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2017
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