The present study has several limitations. First, the sample was based on parents’ depression history. Although parents experienced heightened levels of anxiety symptoms in this sample, no parents in the sample had a history of anxiety only. In future research it will be important to include a sample of parents with a history of anxiety only, depression only, and both anxiety and depression to best test specificity to youth outcomes. In addition, the Affective Problems and Anxiety Problems scales are comprised of 13- and 6-items, respectively. The alphas for these scales ranged from .64 to .78, with only the parent report on the child’s anxiety problems falling below the acceptable range (α <.70). These coefficients are within the range of those reported by Achenbach and Rescorla (2001). Given that alpha is a function of the number of items per scale, it is not surprising that the Anxiety Problems scale demonstrated lower reliability when compared to the Affective Problems scale. Future research may benefit from using additional measures of symptoms of anxiety that capture a wider range of symptoms or include
