Verbal Information Transfer in Real-Life: When Mothers Worry About Their Child Starting School

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Verbal information transfer, one of Rachman’s three pathways to fear, may be one way in which vulnerability for anxiety may be transmitted from parents to children. A community sample of mothers and their preschool-aged children (N = 65) completed observational tasks relating to the child starting school. Mothers were asked to tell their child about social aspects of school; then children completed a brief play assessment involving ambiguous, school-based social scenarios. Mothers completed self-report questionnaires on social anxiety symptoms, general anxiety and depressive symptoms as well as a questionnaire on child anxiety symptoms and indicated whether they were personally worried about their child starting school. There was a significant difference in the information given to children about school between mothers who stated they were worried and those who stated they were not, with mothers who were worried more likely to mention unresolved threat, use at least one anxiety-related word, and show clear/consistent negativity (all ps

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Pass, L., Mastroyannopoulou, K., Coker, S., Murray, L., & Dodd, H. (2017). Verbal Information Transfer in Real-Life: When Mothers Worry About Their Child Starting School. Journal of Child and Family Studies, 26(8), 2324–2334. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10826-017-0735-3

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