Assessment of Parental Experiential Avoidance in a Clinical Sample of Children with Anxiety Disorders

Autor/inn/en	Cheron, Daniel M.; Ehrenreich, Jill T.; Pincus, Donna B.
Titel	Assessment of Parental Experiential Avoidance in a Clinical Sample of Children with Anxiety Disorders
Quelle	In: Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 40 (2009) 3, S.383-403 (21 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0009-398X
DOI	10.1007/s10578-009-0135-z
Schlagwörter	Locus of Control; Predictive Validity; Psychopathology; Parent Child Relationship; Factor Analysis; Psychometrics; Anxiety Disorders; Adolescents; Child Rearing; Test Validity; Psychological Patterns; Social Influences; Experience; Affective Behavior; Parenting Styles; Symptoms (Individual Disorders) + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Psychopathologie; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Faktorenanalyse; Psychometry; Psychometrie; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Kindererziehung; Testvalidität; Sozialer Einfluss; Erfahrung; Affective disturbance; Active behaviour; Affektive Störung; Psychiatrische Symptomatik
Abstract	This investigation seeks to establish the psychometric properties of an adapted measure of experiential avoidance (EA) in the parenting context by assessing its relation to other parenting constructs and psychosocial correlates of child anxiety in a clinical sample. Participants were 154 children (90 female, 64 male) diagnosed with anxiety disorders and their parents (148 mothers, 119 fathers). The newly developed Parental Acceptance and Action Questionnaire (PAAQ) was administered to parents along with self-report measures of adult experiential avoidance, parental psychopathology, affective expression, and parental control behaviors. A subsample of participants, n = 35, were re-administered the PAAQ to assess temporal stability. Factor analysis of the PAAQ yielded a two-factor solution with factors labeled "Inaction" and "Unwillingness." Temporal stability of the PAAQ was found to be moderate, r = 0.68-0.74. Internal consistency was fair across subscales of the PAAQ, [alpha] = 0.64-0.65. Correlational analysis of the PAAQ and parent-report measures support the criterion validity of the PAAQ, suggesting that the PAAQ correlates with parent-report measures of parental locus of control, affective expression, and controlling parental behaviors as well as child psychopathology symptoms. Finally, the clinical applicability of the PAAQ is indicated by the PAAQ's ability to predict a significant amount of variance in parent- and clinician-rated levels of child anxiety and related psychopathology. (As Provided).
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