ArticleDevelopmental psychobiology2022
The social learning of threat and safety in the family: Parent-to-child transmission of social fears via verbal information.
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- 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
- Emotion and Feeling in Parent-Child Dyads: Neurocognitive and Psychophysiological Pathways of Development.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Review
- 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
- Biased and inflexible interpretations of social situations predict depressive symptoms and relational outcomes in parent-adolescent dyads.Behaviour research and therapy · 2025Article
- Do maternal and paternal social trait anxiety explain individual differences in offspring stress reactions during a social performance task?Personality and individual differences · 2025Article
- Family risk factors in the acquisition of anxiety: Behavioral inhibition and Social Fear Learning from Parents.Advances in psychiatry and behavioral health · 2024Article
- 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
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Abstract
Parental verbal threat (vs. safety) information regarding the social world may impact a child's fear responses, evident in subjective, behavioral, cognitive, and physiological indices of fear. In this study, primary caregivers provided standardized verbal threat or safety information to their child (N = 68, M = 5.27 years; 34 girls) regarding two strangers in the lab. Following this manipulation, children reported fear beliefs for each stranger. Physiological and behavioral reactions were recorded as children engaged with the two strangers (who were blind to their characterization) in a social interaction task. Child attention to the strangers was measured in a visual search task. Parents also reported their own, and their child's, social anxiety symptoms. Children reported more fear for the stranger paired with threat information, but no significant differences were found in observed child fear, attention, or heart rate. Higher social anxiety symptoms on the side of the parents and the children exacerbated the effect of parental verbal threat on observed fear. Our findings reveal a causal influence of parental verbal threat information only for child-reported fear and highlight the need to further refine the conditions under which acquired fear beliefs persist and generalize to behavior/physiology or get overruled by nonaversive real-life encounters.
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