Correlation between parental self-cohesion and parental self-control with children s anxiety

Background and Objective: Anxiety is one of the most prevailed childhood disorders. Children s anxiety affects all areas of their communication and even academic performance. However, it seems that most children s diseases are influenced by parents’ cognitive and behavioral aspects. This study investigated the correlation between parental self-cohesion and parental self-control with children s anxiety. Methods: The method of this research was descriptive-correlational. The statistical population of 16,670 second grade primary school female students in Karaj, of whom 390 parents [Mother] were selected using Cochran s formula using multi -stage cluster sampling in 2021. March et al.’s questionnaire on children s anxiety, Ghorbani et al.’s questionnaire on self-cohesion and Tangney et al.’s questionnaire on self-control were used in this study. Data were analyzed using Pearson correlation and stepwise regression. Findings: The results showed that there was a negative correlation between parental self-cohesion and parental self-control with children s anxiety [p 0.001]. Specifically, there was a significant negative correlation between parental self-cohesion (0.25) and parental self-control (0.19) with children s anxiety. Conclusion: This study indicated that there was a correlation between parental self-cohesion and parental self-control with children s anxiety. The present study emphasizes the role of cognitive and communication factors in the family environment on children s anxiety.