Anxious symptomatology and parenting styles in a clinical sample of preschoolers

The relationship between anxiety disorders and parenting styles has been a topic of growing interest over the past decades, mostly in school age groups. The present work analyzes the relationship between anxious symptomatology in a sample of clinically referred preschoolers, parenting styles and parents health. On one hand, results show a correlation between hyperreactivity style and symptoms of generalized anxiety and, on the other hand, a correlation between parents health and separation anxiety symptoms. There is also a relationship between parenting styles (mainly hyperreactivity) and parents health.