Intergenerational Transmission of Social Anxiety: The Role of Paternal and Maternal Fear of Negative Child Evaluation and Parenting Behaviour

Journal of Experimental Psychopathology

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 509-530

  de Vente, Wieke ^a   Majdandžić, Mirjana ^a   Colonnesi, Cristina ^a   Bögels, Susan M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

aetiology; control; fear of negative evaluation; parenting behaviour; rejection; social anxiety disorder

Indexed keywords

EID: 84896709558     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20438087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5127/jep.018811     Document Type: Article

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