Comparison study on child anxiety disorder with different family characteristics
- Author:
Ji-Yue WANG
1
;
Hong ZHU
;
Jun-Fu ZHOU
;
Hui-Xia HE
;
You-Ping HONG
Author Information
1. The Affiliated Children's Hospital, College of Medical Sciences, Zhejiang University, Hangzhou 310003, China.
- Publication Type:Journal Article
- From:
Journal of Zhejiang University. Medical sciences
2002;31(5):371-374
- CountryChina
- Language:Chinese
-
Abstract:
OBJECTIVE: To investigate the relations between child anxiety disorder with different family characte ristics. METHODS Family characteristics were measured by family environment scale. 144 mothers of child with anxiety disorder and 100 mothers of health children were invited to fill out questionnaires. RESULTS There were obviously different family characteristics between health children and those with anxiety disorder except phobic anxiety disorder. The scores of cohesion, independence, achievement orientation and active recreational orientation in children with anxiety disorder were significantly lower than those in health children P<0.01). In 4 groups of children with anxiety disorder cohesion showed correlation with intellectual- cultural orientation r=0.9219, 0.8348, 0.8935, 0.9550 respectively, P<0.001). CONCLUSION: The importance of family characteristics must be emphasized for children with anxiety disorder.
