Life With a Partner with ADHD: The Moderating Role of Intimacy

Feasibility, Implementation and Outcomes of Tablet-Based Two-Step Screening for Adult ADHD in Primary Care Practice

“…Furthermore, the male patients who had a positive screening score and low QoL scored slightly lower in the Relationships domain than the female AADHD patients. This finding contrasts with the results from studies that show that some aspects of relationships such as intimacy and self-esteem are more affected by ADHD in women than among men (Ben-Naim, Marom, Krashin, Gifter, & Arad, 2017; Quinn & Madhoo, 2014). The results of our study confirm that the life domains are impaired in men and women with symptoms consistent with AADHD for all four domains; further research is needed to explore what aspects of relationships are more difficult for male than female patients.…”

Parental Stress and Parental Self-Efficacy as Mediators of the Association Between Children’s ADHD and Marital Satisfaction

“…Since the probability for a child with ADHD to have a parent with ADHD was found to be 41% (Takeda et al, 2010), it would be wise to assume that a large proportion of the parents in the sample had ADHD themselves. This may help explain the individual differences in perceiving their child’s ADHD as more stressful than others, or for the differences in marital satisfaction (Ben-Naim et al, 2017). For instance, a focus on families in which only the child has ADHD as opposed to families with both parent and child diagnosed, may identify subtler patterns of intrafamilial relationships that in turn may minimize the effects on parental-marital satisfaction compared to the more emotionally intense relationships in dual-diagnostic families.…”

“…A recent study estimates that ADHD affects 6% to 9% of all children and 2.5% of all adults (van de Glind et al, 2014). In the past few years, scholarly attention has been increasingly devoted to the social and interpersonal impact of ADHD on both academic and other life domains (e. g. Ben-Naim, Marom, Arad, Krashin, & Gifter, 2017; Gordon & Hinshaw, 2017).…”

Childhood mental health and adult family relationships: How ADHD shapes experiences with intimate unions and parenthood

“…With respect to family functioning, individuals with ADHD report lower relationship quality and less relationship satisfaction in intimate unions (Bruner et al., 2015; Moyá et al., 2014; Pollock et al., 2017). Further, studies indicate that marriages where either partner has ADHD are characterized by lower marital satisfaction, less intimacy and poorer communication with their partners (Ben‐Naim et al., 2017; Eakin et al., 2004; Ersoy & Topçu Ersoy, 2019). Moreover, parents diagnosed with ADHD feel less close to their children, experience less happiness in their role as parents and feel more overwhelmed as parents than their undiagnosed counterparts (Kroeger, 2018).…”