Anxiety sensitivity (AS) or the fear of anxious symptomatology, has garnered support in both adult and child samples for its predictive validity of anxiety disorders. Recent efforts to identify familial factors that predict anxiety amongst youth have identified a construct similar to AS amongst parents, but instead focused on the child rather than on the self. The overarching goal of the present study was to examine the extent to which two measures of this construct [the Parent Sensitivity to Child Anxiety Index (PSCAI) and the Parental Beliefs about Anxiety Questionnaire (PBA-Q)] correlated with child and parent AS and anxiety and how these measures explained the relationships between parent- and child-reported AS and anxiety. A secondary aim of the present study was to psychometrically compare the PSCAI and the PBA-Q with respect to not only their convergence with parent and child AS and anxiety, but also the extent to which each mediated the parent-child relationships between these variables. The PSCAI and PBA-Q significantly mediated the relationship between parent and child AS, each yielding small significant indirect effects. Support was also observed for a double mediation model in which parental anxiety predicted parental AS, which predicted parental beliefs about and parental sensitivity to child anxiety, which in turn predicted child anxiety. Findings suggest that both parental beliefs about and sensitivity to child anxiety are both correlated with and partially explain the relationship between parent and child AS and anxiety, providing potential points of intervention in treatment and prevention efforts for child anxiety.

焦虑敏感性（AS）或对焦虑症状的恐惧，因其对焦虑症的预测有效性而获得了成人和儿童样本的支持。最近在确定预测青年焦虑症的家庭因素方面所做的努力已经确定了一种类似于父母中AS的结构，但重点是孩子而不是自我。本研究的总体目标是检验这种结构的两种度量[父母对儿童焦虑指数的敏感性（PSCAI）和父母对焦虑问卷的信念（PBA-Q）]与儿童和父母的AS和焦虑以及这些措施如何解释父母和儿童报告的AS与焦虑之间的关系。本研究的第二个目的是从心理上比较PSCAI和PBA-Q，不仅涉及它们与父母和孩子的AS的融合和焦虑，还涉及每个变量介导这些变量之间的亲子关系的程度。PSCAI和PBA-Q显着介导了父母与孩子AS之间的关系，每个都产生了很小的显着间接影响。还观察到了一种双重调解模型的支持，在这种模型中，父母的焦虑感预测了父母的AS，父母的AS预测了父母对儿童焦虑的信念以及父母对儿童焦虑的敏感性，而父母的敏感性又预测了儿童的焦虑。研究结果表明，父母对孩子焦虑的信念和对孩子焦虑的敏感性均与父母和孩子AS与焦虑之间的关系相关，并部分解释了这一点，