Anxiety traits and influencing factors of children with tic disorders / 中华行为医学与脑科学杂志

ABSTRACT

Objective To investigate the traits of anxiety characteristics and its influencing factors in children with tic disorders ( TD) . Methods 31 children with tic disorders and 32 normal children were assessed by the screen for child anxiety related emotional disorders(SCARED), eysenck personality ques-tionnaire(EPQ) for child,attachment security scale and egma minnen av bardndosnauppforstran(EMBU).In-dependent sample t-test was used to compare the differences in anxiety disorders between the children of the two groups,and Pearson correlation and multivariate linear step-by-step regression analysis were used to ana-lyze the effects of personality traits,parent-child attachment and parental education on anxiety. Results So-matization/panic and separation anxiety in TD((6.20±5.33),(4.87±3.18)) were higher than those in con-trol group((3.75±3.34),(3.06±2.61);both P<0.05).There was positive correlation between somatization/panic and children's personality of introversion-extroversion(E),psychoticism(P),excessive interference mother,the mother refusal and denial,mother severely punishment(r=0.580,0.427,0.399,0.674,0.575,P<0.05 or P<0.01),and negative correlation between somatization/panic and mother closeness(r=-0.365,P<0.05).Generalized anxiety was positively correlated with E,P,lie,excessive interference mother,the mother refusal and denial,mother severely punishment(r=0.604,0.543,0.526,0.365,0.613,0.395,P<0.05 or P<0.01) . Separation anxiety was positively correlated with E, lie, the mother refusal and denial ( r=0. 440, 0.401,0.365,P<0.05).Social phobia was positively correlated with excessive interference mother,the mother refusal and denial (r=0.367,0.482,P<0.05 or P<0.01).School phobia was not only positively associated with E, N, P, excessive interference mother, the mother refusal and denial, mother severely punished ( r=0.635,0.449,0.526,0.463,0.541,0.589,P<0.05 or P<0.01),but also negatively correlated with mother closeness(r=-0.394,P<0.05).The mother refusal and denial affected on somatization/panic and social pho-bia(accounted for 45.4％,23.2％) ,the mother refusal and denial and lie affected on generalized anxiety( ac-counted for 51.0％) ,E affected on separation anxiety( accounted for 19.3％) ,E and mother severely punish-ment affected on school phobia( accounted for 50.0％) ,the mother refusal and denial and E affected on total anxiety( accounted for 49.4％) . Conclusions Somatization/panic and separation anxiety in children with tic disorder is higher than that in normal children.Anxiety disorder is mainly affected by fewer mother's encour-agement and tolerance,and children's extroversion.