Parenting and Child Anxiety

Hello everybody,

I am currently in the process of writing a lit review about a particular parenting behavior and how this behavior may relate to certain child anxiety symptoms. The parenting behavior I have chosen to target is parental intrusiveness/over-control. I have been interested in this construct since I volunteered in a lab that investigated this (among a thousand other things) as an undergraduate. I presented some intriguing data from that lab at a conference about two years ago, and I look forward to now delve even deeper into the subject.

I love classes that allow you to simultaneously think of your own research interests and fulfill requirements of the class. Since this is a research topic I have been interested in for a long time, and something I am sure I'll use in my future research endeavors, it does not feel as forced to sit down and do it as other class work does.

I plan to spend all day tomorrow to think some more about this topic and start accumulating more research in the area. Since I am not a complete novice in this research topic, I have a hunch of what the literature will tell me, but I will let you guys know when I have more conclusive evidence of my hypothesis. :)

Until then...
Cheers!!