Family Characteristics of Anxious ADHD Children: Preliminary Results

Autor/inn/en	Kepley, Hayden O.; Ostrander, Rick
Titel	Family Characteristics of Anxious ADHD Children: Preliminary Results
Quelle	In: Journal of Attention Disorders, 10 (2007) 3, S.317-323 (7 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1087-0547
DOI	10.1177/1087054706288102
Schlagwörter	Incidence; Family Characteristics; Alcohol Abuse; Attention Deficit Disorders; Parents; Family Environment; Anxiety; Parent Child Relationship; Hyperactivity; Family Influence; Parent Attitudes; Conflict; Children; Mothers; Parent Influence; Interviews; Family Environment Scale; Behavior Assessment System for Children + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Vorkommen; Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHS; Aufmerksamkeits-Defizit-Hyperaktivitäts-Störung; Aufmerksamkeitsstörung; Eltern; Familienmilieu; Angst; Parents-child relationship; Parent-child-relation; Parent-child relationship; Eltern-Kind-Beziehung; Hyperaktivität; Elternverhalten; Konflikt; Child; Kind; Kinder; Mother; Mutter; Interviewing; Interviewtechnik
Abstract	Objective: To investigate the family environments of children in a community sample with ADHD and co-occurring anxiety. Method: Family Environment Scale, Behavioral Assessment System for Children, and Structured Clinical Interview are administered to parents of children with ADHD with and without anxiety. Results: ADHD families are uniformly less cohesive and expressive and possess more conflict than families representing the community sample. In contrast to community or nonanxious ADHD families, anxious ADHD families do not encourage independence and tend to be distinctly less assertive, self-sufficient, and autonomous. Although anxious and nonanxious ADHD children tend to have a uniformly high incidence of maternal ADHD, mothers of anxious ADHD children tend to display a much higher incidence of substance/alcohol abuse than either nonanxious or community participants. Conclusion: Findings are consistent with the notion that an insular, dependent, and somewhat controlling family environment characterizes families of children with ADHD and comorbid childhood anxiety. (Contains 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10