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01-12-2009 | Original Article

Overprotective Parenting, Social Anxiety, and External Locus of Control: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Relationships

Auteurs: Megan Spokas, Richard G. Heimberg

Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research | Uitgave 6/2009

Abstract

A relationship between social anxiety and a parenting style marked by overprotection and low warmth has been repeatedly demonstrated (e.g., Bruch et al. in Anxiety Reaserch 2:57–65, 1989; Lieb et al. in Arch Gen Psychiatry 57:859–866, 2000). The current study supports the findings in the broader literature of a significant relationship between social anxiety and recollections of overprotective and cold parenting among college students. External locus of control partially mediated the relationship between overprotective parenting and social anxiety. However, these analyses used cross-sectional data, and an alternate mediational model was also significant, highlighting the various ways in which these factors interact. Finally, recollections of maternal overprotection predicted an increase in social anxiety during the first semester of college, suggesting their influence on current functioning.

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Planned analyses also included the examination of negative interpretation bias as a potential mediator of the relationship between overprotective parenting and social anxiety. However, problems with the completion of the interpretation bias measure resulted in a large amount of missing data (35.2%) and precluded our ability to complete these analyses.

Only a subsample of respondents who provided both reports of maternal and paternal overprotection is included (n = 748) in the mediator analyses examining the composite of “parental overprotection.” However, analyses were also conducted examining maternal and paternal overprotection separately, and these findings were identical to the overall findings presented.

Because the analyses conducted separately for maternal and paternal overprotection produced different results, the analysis including the overall “parental overprotection” variable is not presented, although it did produce a significant change in R ².

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Titel: Overprotective Parenting, Social Anxiety, and External Locus of Control: Cross-sectional and Longitudinal Relationships
Auteurs: Megan Spokas
Richard G. Heimberg
Publicatiedatum: 01-12-2009
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Cognitive Therapy and Research / Uitgave 6/2009
Print ISSN: 0147-5916
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-2819
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10608-008-9227-5

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