Trial reportTwin research and human genetics : the official journal of the International Society for Twin Studies2012
Offspring ADHD as a risk factor for parental marital problems: controls for genetic and environmental confounds.
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- Effect of Maternal Anxiety on Parenting Stress of Fathers of Children With ADHD.Journal of Korean medical science · 2022Article
- Reexamining the association between the interparental relationship and parent-child interactions: Incorporating heritable influences.Developmental psychology · 2022Article
- Adverse childhood experiences predict neurite density differences in young children with and without attention deficit hyperactivity disorder.Developmental psychobiology · 2022Article
- ADHD and risk for subsequent adverse childhood experiences: understanding the cycle of adversity.Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines · 2021Article
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- Epigenome-wide association study of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder in adults.Translational psychiatry · 2020Article
- Shorter birth intervals between siblings are associated with increased risk of parental divorce.PloS one · 2020Article
- Medical treatment of Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) and children's academic performance.PloS one · 2018Article
- Quality of life, psychological characteristics, and adjustment in parents of children with Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder.Quality of life research : an international journal of quality of life aspects of treatment, care and rehabilitation · 2017Article
- How Can Genetically Informed Research Help Inform the Next Generation of Interparental and Parenting Interventions?Child development · 2017Review
- Temporary Life Changes and the Timing of Divorce.Demography · 2016Article
- Prevalence of mental health problems and service use among first-time juvenile offenders.Journal of child and family studies · 2015Article
- The effects of temporally secondary co-morbid mental disorders on the associations of DSM-IV ADHD with adverse outcomes in the US National Comorbidity Survey Replication Adolescent Supplement (NCS-A).Psychological medicine · 2014Article
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Abstract
backgroundPrevious studies have found that child attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is associated with more parental marital problems. However, the reasons for this association are unclear. The association might be due to genetic or environmental confounds that contribute to both marital problems and ADHD.
methodData were drawn from the Australian Twin Registry, including 1,296 individual twins, their spouses, and offspring. We studied adult twins who were discordant for offspring ADHD.Using a discordant twin pairs design, we examined the extent to which genetic and environmental confounds,as well as measured parental and offspring characteristics, explain the ADHD-marital problems association.
resultsOffspring ADHD predicted parental divorce and marital conflict. The associations were also robust when comparing differentially exposed identical twins to control for unmeasured genetic and environmental factors, when controlling for measured maternal and paternal psychopathology,when restricting the sample based on timing of parental divorce and ADHD onset, and when controlling for other forms of offspring psychopathology. Each of these controls rules out alternative explanations for the association.
conclusionThe results of the current study converge with those of prior research in suggesting that factors directly associated with offspring ADHD increase parental marital problems.
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