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Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology 4/2008

01-04-2008 | ORIGINAL PAPER

Adverse parenting as a risk factor in the occurrence of anxiety disorders

A study in six European countries

Authors: Dirk Heider, Herbert Matschinger, Sebastian Bernert, Jordi Alonso, Traolach S. Brugha, Ronny Bruffaerts, Giovanni de Girolamo, Sandra Dietrich, Matthias C. Angermeyer, The ESEMeD/MHEDEA 2000 investigators

Published in: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology | Issue 4/2008

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Abstract

Objective

The aim of the study was to test the homogeneity of the association between adverse parenting and anxiety disorders within these disorders as well as among six European countries.

Method

Based on data from 8,232 respondents (part II sample) originating from the European study of the epidemiology of mental disorders (ESEMeD), we examined the association between three dimensions of parental rearing (care, overprotection, authoritarianism) measured by a short form of the parental bonding instrument (PBI) and anxiety disorders by computing one logistic regression model per disorder.

Results

A similar pattern of recalled parenting behaviour across the four anxiety disorders assessed was found, with care and overprotection having the strongest associations. There were only minor country-specific variations of this pattern.

Conclusion

Our results suggest an association between adverse parenting and the risk of anxiety disorders in particular as well as psychiatric disorders in general that is rather non-disorder specific.
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Metadata
Title
Adverse parenting as a risk factor in the occurrence of anxiety disorders
A study in six European countries
Authors
Dirk Heider
Herbert Matschinger
Sebastian Bernert
Jordi Alonso
Traolach S. Brugha
Ronny Bruffaerts
Giovanni de Girolamo
Sandra Dietrich
Matthias C. Angermeyer
The ESEMeD/MHEDEA 2000 investigators
Publication date
01-04-2008
Publisher
D. Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in
Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology / Issue 4/2008
Print ISSN: 0933-7954
Electronic ISSN: 1433-9285
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-007-0302-0

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