In both the Durbin et al. (2005) and Olino et al. (2010) studies, the child temperament–parental psychopathology associations were specific to depression. However, other work suggests that children of parents with anxiety disorders may also exhibit elevated BI. For example, Rosenbaum et al. (2000) assessed BI using laboratory measures in 2-to 6-year-old children of parents with a history of MDD and/or panic disorder and parents with no history of mood or anxiety disorders. Children of patients with both MDD and panic disorder exhibited significantly greater BI than did children of parents with no history of mood or anxiety disorder. Children of parents with panic disorder alone and children of parents with MDD alone had intermediate levels of BI that did not differ significantly from children of parents in the comorbid and no-psychopathology groups.
