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      Paternal Feelings and Child’s Anxiety: The Mediating Role of Father–Child Insecure Attachment and Child’s Emotional Regulation

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          The study introduces a path model that links between paternal feelings and child’s anxiety symptoms, aiming to test the mediational role of father–child insecure attachment and the child’s difficulties in emotional regulation in the occurrence of anxiety disorders among a sample of 148 fathers and their children (65 boys and 83 girls aged 8–18) attending the child psychiatric center of a public hospital. Participants completed a battery of diagnostical and research questionnaires, including the Parental Feelings Inventory (PFI), the Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale (DERS), the Screen for Child Anxiety–Related Emotional Disorders (SCARED), and the Experiences in Close Relationships Scale–Revised Child version (ECR-RC). Using structural equation modeling, we found father’s anger to be associated with father–child anxiety attachment, while the latter simultaneously mediated the link to the child’s anxiety both directly and indirectly (through emotion regulation [ER]). Consistent with previous evidence, we found insecure attachment and emotional regulation to be uniquely associated with the child’s anxiety. The current findings are among the first to demonstrate the interrelations between these variables in the context of father–child relations, suggesting that the child’s exposure to paternal anger might contribute to developing difficulties in ER and elevated anxiety due to a father–child insecure-anxious attachment relationship. The theoretical and practical implications of the findings are discussed in light of parental gender.

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                Journal
                Am J Mens Health
                Am J Mens Health
                JMH
                spjmh
                American Journal of Men's Health
                SAGE Publications (Sage CA: Los Angeles, CA )
                1557-9883
                1557-9891
                23 December 2021
                Nov-Dec 2021
                : 15
                : 6
                : 15579883211067103
                Affiliations
                [1 ]Department of Social Work, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel
                [2 ]Ziv Medical Center, Faculty of Medicine, Zfat and Bar-Ilan University, Safed, Israel
                [3 ]Department of Education, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee, Israel
                Author notes
                [*]Yosi Yaffe, Department of Education, Tel-Hai Academic College, Upper Galilee 12208, Israel. Email: yaffeyos@ 123456telhai.ac.il
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                https://orcid.org/0000-0002-3342-8842
                Article
                10.1177_15579883211067103
                10.1177/15579883211067103
                8725010
                34939513
                23aad21d-84db-484f-83b2-b96fcaf89d85
                © The Author(s) 2021

                This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) which permits non-commercial use, reproduction and distribution of the work without further permission provided the original work is attributed as specified on the SAGE and Open Access page ( https://us.sagepub.com/en-us/nam/open-access-at-sage).

                History
                : 7 October 2021
                : 27 November 2021
                : 29 November 2021
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                paternal feelings,anger,attachment,emotional regulation,anxiety

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