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Department of Psychology, Babol Branch, Islamic Azad University, Babol, Iran , jamalsadeghi@iaubabol.ac.ir
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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.

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