SynthesisClinical child and family psychology review2016
Parents' Verbal Communication and Childhood Anxiety: A Systematic Review.
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20 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- The Association Between Parent-to-Child Fear Learning Pathways and Anxiety Sensitivity: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2025Pooled it
- The Role of Parental Verbal Threat Information in Children's Fear Acquisition: A Systematic Review and Meta-analysis.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2024Pooled it
- Bidirectional Associations Between Primary Caregivers' and Adolescents' Depressive and Anxiety Symptoms: An Intergenerational Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis.Depression and anxiety · 2026Article
- Association of parental verbal responsivity with reduced mental health problems in preschool-aged children: a cross-sectional study of 21,366 dyads in western China.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Article
- The roles of parental verbal communication and child characteristics in the transmission and maintenance of social fears.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2025Article
- Family risk factors in the acquisition of anxiety: Behavioral inhibition and Social Fear Learning from Parents.Advances in psychiatry and behavioral health · 2024Article
- A systematic review of the association between parent-child communication and adolescent mental health.JCPP advances · 2024Article
- Saudi Arabian Perceptions of Childhood Anxiety, Parental Communication, and Parenting Style.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2023Article
- "Covid-19 is dangerous": The role of parental verbal threat information on children's fear of Covid-19.Journal of adolescence · 2023Article
- Developing an Anxiety Screening Tool for Children in South Africa: Protocol for a Mixed Methods Study.JMIR research protocols · 2022Article
- The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent-to-child transmission of social fears via verbal information.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- Parent-to-Child Anxiety Transmission Through Dyadic Social Dynamics: A Dynamic Developmental Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Intergenerational Transmission of Anxious Information Processing Biases: An Updated Conceptual Model.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2022Review
- Fear and anxiety in girls aged 7 to 11 years old and related factors during the coronavirus pandemic.Clinical child psychology and psychiatry · 2022Article
- Don't Think That Kids Aren't Noticing: Indirect Pathways to Children's Fear of COVID-19.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Predicting Temperamentally Inhibited Young Children's Clinical-Level Anxiety and Internalizing Problems from Parenting and Parent Wellbeing: a Population Study.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- Early Childhood Predictors of Anxiety in Early Adolescence.Journal of abnormal child psychology · 2019Article
- A longitudinal investigation of the role of parental responses in predicting children's post-traumatic distress.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2018Article
- Environmental transmission of generalized anxiety disorder from parents to children: worries, experiential avoidance, and intolerance of uncertainty.Dialogues in clinical neuroscience · 2017Review
- Verbal Information Transfer in Real-Life: When Mothers Worry About Their Child Starting School.Journal of child and family studies · 2017Article
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Abstract
Parents' verbal communication to their child, particularly the expression of fear-relevant information (e.g., attributions of threat to the environment), is considered to play a key role in children's fears and anxiety. This review considers the extent to which parental verbal communication is associated with child anxiety by examining research that has employed objective observational methods. Using a systematic search strategy, we identified 15 studies that addressed this question. These studies provided some evidence that particular fear-relevant features of parental verbal communication are associated with child anxiety under certain conditions. However, the scope for drawing reliable, general conclusions was limited by extensive methodological variation between studies, particularly in terms of the features of parental verbal communication examined and the context in which communication took place, how child anxiety was measured, and inconsistent consideration of factors that may moderate the verbal communication-child anxiety relationship. We discuss ways in which future research can contribute to this developing evidence base and reduce further methodological inconsistency so as to inform interventions for children with anxiety problems.
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