Offspring of parents with mood disorders

Maciejewski, Dominique; Hillegers, Manon H. J.; Penninx, Brenda W.J.H.

doi:10.1097/yco.0000000000000423

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“…The present study, based on a large Swedish cohort born in 1953 and their parents, shows that individuals whose parents suffered from mental health problems are more likely to also present with poor mental health in adulthood as measured by any hospital admission due to a number of psychiatric diagnoses, for example depressive disorders and bipolar affective disorders. These findings confirm existing research of intergenerational transmission of mental health [6–12]. However, this study contributes to the literature through its focus on adult mental health, in contrast to outcomes in childhood or adolescence.…”

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Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

Landstedt

Almquist

2019

BMC Psychiatry

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Background Past research has established the intergenerational patterning of mental health: children whose parents have mental health problems are more likely to present with similar problems themselves. However, there is limited knowledge about the extent to which factors related to the child’s own social context, such as peer relationships, matter for this patterning. The aim of the current study was to examine the role of childhood peer status positions for the association in mental health across two generations. Methods The data were drawn from a prospective cohort study of 14,608 children born in 1953, followed up until 2016, and their parents. Gender-specific logistic regression analysis was applied. Firstly, we examined the associations between parental mental health problems and childhood peer status, respectively, and the children’s mental health problems in adulthood. Secondly, the variation in the intergenerational patterning of mental health according to peer status position was investigated. Results The results showed that children whose parents had mental health problems were around twice as likely to present with mental health problems in adulthood. Moreover, lower peer status position in childhood was associated with increased odds of mental health problems. Higher peer status appeared to mitigate the intergenerational association in mental health problems among men. For women, a u-shaped was found, indicating that the association was stronger in both the lower and upper ends of the peer status hierarchy. Conclusions This study has shown that there is a clear patterning in mental health problems across generations, and that the child generation’s peer status positions matter for this patterning. The findings also point to the importance of addressing gender differences in these associations.

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confidence: 89%

Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

Landstedt

Almquist

2019

BMC Psychiatry

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“…The withdrawal from social life, daily activities, as attending to school, combined with fear, anxiety and the feeling of the unpredictable, increase the risks for this group to develop psychiatric disorders in the future, even those who do not have such histories. Besides, children whose parents are under high stressful conditions at home due to pandemic also have a higher risk of developing psychiatric disorders ( Maciejewski et al, 2018 ).…”

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“…However, this situation also brings up some concerns. It was already observed that children with parents diagnosed with some psychiatric disturbance are more susceptible to developing psychopathologies ( Maciejewski et al, 2018 ). In the context of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, most parents had to reorganize their lives to deal with working at home in addition to children's management.…”

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COVID-19 pandemic impact on children and adolescents' mental health: Biological, environmental, and social factors

Figueiredo

Sandre

Portugal

et al. 2021

Progress in Neuro-Psychopharmacology and Biological Psychiatry

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“…Although well validated, this method has been debated as parents' reports of their children's problems might be biased by their own psychopathology and by the sex of the child (Najman et al, 2001;Kroes et al, 2003). When possible, the mental health status of caregivers should be evaluated at the same time as children: many studies have shown that parental adjustments during emergencies are important predictors of children's mental health outcomes (McFarlane et al, 1987;Laor et al, 2001); moreover, one of the greatest risk factors for children to develop a psychopathology is having a parent with a psychiatric disorder (see e.g., Beidel and Turner, 1997;Maciejewski et al, 2018). Both genetic and environmental factors seem to be involved in the familiar transmission of psychological disorders, but the exact nature of the underlying mechanisms remains still unclear.…”

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Stuck Outside and Inside: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Italian Parents and Children’s Internalizing Symptoms

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The Covid-19 outbreak and the subsequent lockdown have profoundly impacted families' daily life, challenging their psychological resilience. Our study aimed to investigate the immediate psychological consequences of the pandemic on Italian parents and children focusing on internalizing and post-traumatic symptoms. We also wanted to explore the impact of possible risk and resilience factors, e.g., lifestyle and behaviors, emotional and cognitive beliefs, on parents and children's reaction to the emergency distress. An online survey was administered during the country's nationwide lockdown to 721 Italian parents of at least one child aged between 6 and 18 years. The respondent completed the survey for himself/herself and his/her child. The survey included socio-demographic items and validated questionnaires on parents' post-traumatic stress symptoms, depression and anxiety levels, and on children's internalizing problems. Parents were asked to fill the questionnaires twice: once referring to the current emergency condition and once recalling how they and their child felt a few months before Covid-19 outbreak. Multiple regression analyses showed that specific demographic characteristics (i.e., sex and age) and psychological factors of children and parents, such as fear of contagion and the opportunity to think about possible secondary positive effects of the pandemic, had a predictive value on the presence of internalizing symptoms of both parents and children. Moreover, parents' behaviors during the lockdown period (i.e., employment status and sport practiced) were significantly related to their own internalizing symptoms; these symptoms, in turn, had a strong and positive predictive value on children's internalizing problems. Besides, analyses of variance showed that internalizing symptoms of parents and children were significantly higher during the Covid-19 pandemic than before it started. In addition to showing a direct effect of the pandemic on the psychological health of parents and

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Offspring of parents with mood disorders

Cited by 39 publications

References 87 publications

Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

COVID-19 pandemic impact on children and adolescents' mental health: Biological, environmental, and social factors

Stuck Outside and Inside: An Exploratory Study on the Effects of the COVID-19 Outbreak on Italian Parents and Children’s Internalizing Symptoms

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