DSM-defined anxiety disorders symptoms in South African youths: Their assessment and relationship with perceived parental rearing behaviors

Behaviour Research and Therapy

Volumn 44, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 883-896

  Muris, Peter ^a   Loxton, Helene ^b   Neumann, Anna ^c   du Plessis, Michelle ^b   King, Neville ^d   Ollendick, Thomas ^e  

^a ERASMUS UNIVERSITY ROTTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^e VIRGINIA POLYTECHNIC INSTITUTE AND STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Anxiety; Children and adolescents; Perceived parental rearing behaviors; Screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders; South Africa

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AGE DISTRIBUTION; ANXIETY; ANXIETY DISORDER; ARTICLE; CHILD PARENT RELATION; CHILD REARING; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CULTURAL ANTHROPOLOGY; DIAGNOSTIC AND STATISTICAL MANUAL OF MENTAL DISORDERS; EMOTION; FEMALE; GROUPS BY AGE; HUMAN; JUVENILE; MALE; PARENTAL BEHAVIOR; PSYCHOMETRY; QUESTIONNAIRE; RACE DIFFERENCE; RATING SCALE; SAMPLE; SCHOOL CHILD; SOUTH AFRICA; SYMPTOM; CAUCASIAN; CHILD; ETHNOLOGY; FACTORIAL ANALYSIS; NEGRO; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; PSYCHOLOGICAL RATING SCALE; REPRODUCIBILITY; RISK FACTOR; VALIDATION STUDY;

ADOLESCENT; AFRICAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; ANXIETY DISORDERS; CHILD; EUROPEAN CONTINENTAL ANCESTRY GROUP; FACTOR ANALYSIS, STATISTICAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; PARENTING; PSYCHIATRIC STATUS RATING SCALES; PSYCHOMETRICS; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; RISK FACTORS; SOUTH AFRICA;

EID: 79952249032     PISSN: 00057967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.brat.2005.08.009     Document Type: Article

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