Perceived family environments of depressed and anxious children: Child's and maternal figure's perspectives |
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Authors: | Kevin D Stark Laura Lynn Humphrey Kim Crook Kay Lewis |
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Institution: | (1) SchooI of Medicine, Northwestern University, Zip code Evanston, Illinois;(2) Department of Educational Psychology, University of Texas, Education Building 504, 78712 Austin, Texas |
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Abstract: | This study examined perceived environment among families with a depressed, depressed and anxious, anxious, or normal child from the 4th to 7th grades. Fifty-one such children were classified according to criteria from the K- SADS and a set of self-ratings of depression and anxiety. Results showed that children in all three diagnostic groups, and to a lesser extent their mothers, experienced their families as more distressed on a host of dimensions relative to controls. In addition, significant differences were found between families with a depressed and anxious child and those with an anxious child. Discriminant function analyses revealed that 68.63 % of the youngsters could be classified correctly into depressed and anxious groups on the basis of their family ratings alone. |
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