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ArticleJournal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines2022

Parental criticism and adolescent internalising symptoms: using a Children-of-Twins design with power calculations to account for genetic influence.

Yasmin I Ahmadzadeh, Thalia C Eley, Laurie Hannigan, Cathy Creswell, Paul Lichtenstein, Erica Spotts, Jody Ganiban, Jenae Neiderhiser, Fruhling Rijsdijk, Tom A McAdams

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Article in Journal of child psychology and psychiatry, and allied disciplines, 2022. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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  8. Parenting in the Context of the Child: Genetic and Social Processes.Monographs of the Society for Research in Child Development · 2022
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10 authors.

Yasmin I AhmadzadehInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1333-1661
Thalia C EleyInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0001-6458-0700
Laurie HanniganMRC Integrative Epidemiology Unit, University of Bristol, Bristol, UK.
Cathy CreswellDepartments of Experimental Psychology and Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK.ORCID 0000-0003-1889-0956
Paul LichtensteinDepartment of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden.
Erica SpottsOffice of Behavioral and Social Science Research, National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD, USA.
Jody GanibanDepartment of Psychology, George Washington University, Washington, DC, USA.
Jenae NeiderhiserDepartment of Psychology, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA, USA.
Fruhling RijsdijkInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.
Tom A McAdamsInstitute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King's College London, London, UK.ORCID 0000-0002-6825-3499

Funding

GENES, ENVIRONMENT, AND MATERNAL ADJUSTMENTR01MH054610 · NIMH · GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY · PI NEIDERHISER, JENAE M. · 1996 to 2006
$2.7M
Medical Research Council MR/M021475/1Medical Research Council MR/V012878/1NIMH NIH HHS R01 MH054610Wellcome Trust 220382/Z/20/Z
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

backgroundParental criticism is correlated with internalising symptoms in adolescent offspring. This correlation could in part reflect their genetic relatedness, if the same genes influence behaviours in both parents and offspring. We use a Children-of-Twins design to assess whether parent-reported criticism and offspring internalising symptoms remain associated after controlling for shared genes. To aid interpretation of our results and those of previous Children-of-Twins studies, we examine statistical power for the detection of genetic effects and explore the direction of possible causal effects between generations.

methodsData were drawn from two Swedish twin samples, comprising 876 adult twin pairs with adolescent offspring and 1,030 adolescent twin pairs with parents. Parent reports of criticism towards their offspring were collected concurrently with parent and offspring reports of adolescent internalising symptoms. Children-of-Twins structural equation models were used to control for genetic influence on the intergenerational association between parental criticism and adolescent internalising.

resultsParental criticism was associated with adolescent internalising symptoms after controlling for genetic influence. No significant role was found for shared genes influencing phenotypes in both generations, although power analyses suggested that some genetic effects may have gone undetected. Models could not distinguish directionality for nongenetic, causal effects between generations.

conclusionsParental criticism may be involved in psychosocial family processes in the context of adolescent internalising. Future studies should seek to identify these processes and provide clarity on the direction of potential causal effects.

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ParentsTwinsAdolescentHumansPhenotypeSwedenadolescentgeneticsintergenerationalParentingpsychopathology

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