The psychosocial functioning of children and spouses of adults with ADHD

Minde, Klaus; Eakin, Laurel; Hechtman, Lily; Ochs, Eric P.; Bouffard, Rachelle; Greenfield, Brian; Looper, Karl

doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00150

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“…The peer relationships of typicallydeveloping children may be less affected by parental ADHD, because these children may naturally make friends without parental coaching. Consistent with this hypothesis, Minde et al (2003) reported that parental ADHD was associated with poorer parent-rated social adjustment if the child also had ADHD and not if the child was typicallydeveloping.…”

Section: Interactions Between Adult and Child Adhd In Shaping Child Smentioning

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The Role of Maternal and Child ADHD Symptoms in Shaping Interpersonal Relationships

Griggs

Mikami

2010

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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The current study investigated the influence of maternal ADHD symptoms on: (a) mothers' own social functioning; (b) their child's social functioning; and (c) parent-child interactions following a lab-based playgroup involving children and their peers. Participants were 103 biological mothers of children ages 6-10. Approximately half of the children had ADHD, and the remainder were comparison youth. After statistical control of children's ADHD diagnostic status and mothers' educational attainment, mothers' own inattentive ADHD symptoms predicted poorer self-reported social skills. Children with ADHD were reported to have more social problems by parents and teachers, as well as received fewer positive sociometric nominations from playgroup peers relative to children without ADHD. After control of child ADHD status, higher maternal inattention and hyperactivity/impulsivity each predicted children having more parent-reported social problems; maternal inattention predicted children receiving more negative sociometric nominations from playgroup peers. There were interactions between maternal ADHD symptoms and children's ADHD diagnostic status in predicting some child behaviors and parent-child relationship measures. Specifically, maternal inattention was associated with decreased prosocial behavior for children without ADHD, but did not influence the prosocial behavior of children with ADHD. Maternal inattention was associated with mothers' decreased corrective feedback and, at a trend level, decreased irritability toward their children with ADHD, but there was no relationship between maternal inattention and maternal behaviors for children without ADHD. A similar pattern was observed for maternal hyperactivity/impulsivity and mothers' observed irritability towards their children. Treatment implications of findings are discussed.

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Section: Interactions Between Adult and Child Adhd In Shaping Child Smentioning

confidence: 70%

The Role of Maternal and Child ADHD Symptoms in Shaping Interpersonal Relationships

Griggs

Mikami

2010

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…The negative correlation between paternal hyperactivity and anxiety in the offspring may be somewhat related to the findings of Minde et al [63] who demonstrated that wives of men with ADHD were more supportive and tolerant with their husbands compared with non-ADHD men married to ADHD women. Agha et al [59] reported that mothers tend to be warmer to ADHD offspring when fathers have ADHD in comparison to the inverse situation.…”

Section: Parental Adhd Symptoms and Offspring Anxiety And Depressionmentioning

confidence: 78%

Multilevel analysis of ADHD, anxiety and depression symptoms aggregation in families

Segenreich

Paez

Regalla

et al. 2014

Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry

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A strong genetic role in the etiology of attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) has been demonstrated by several studies using different methodologies. Shortcomings of genetic studies often include the lack of golden standard practices for diagnosis for ADHD, the use of categorical instead of a dimensional approach, and the disregard for assortative mating phenomenon in parents. The current study aimed to overcome these shortcomings and analyze data through a novel statistical approach, using multilevel analyses with Bayesian procedures and a specific mathematical model, which takes into account data with an elevated number of zero responses (expected in samples with few or no ADHD symptoms). Correlations of parental clinical variables (ADHD, anxiety and depression) to offspring psychopathology may vary according to gender and type of symptoms. We aimed to investigate how those variables interact within each other. One hundred families, comprising a proband child or adolescent with ADHD or a typically developing child or adolescent were included and all family members (both biological parents, the proband child or adolescent and their sibling) were examined through semi-structured interviews using DSM-IV criteria. Results indicated that: (a) maternal clinical variables (ADHD, anxiety and depression) were more correlated with offspring variables than paternal ones; (b) maternal inattention (but not hyperactivity) was correlated with both inattention and hyperactivity in the offspring; (c) maternal anxiety was correlated with offspring inattention; on the other hand, maternal inattention was correlated with anxiety in the offspring. Although a family study design limits the possibility of revealing causality and cannot disentangle genetic and environmental factors, our findings suggest that ADHD, anxiety and depression are variables that correlate in families and should be addressed together. Maternal variables significantly correlated with offspring variables, but the paternal variables did not.

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“…The family dynamic can be further influenced by a parent's psychiatric status. Minde and colleagues 116 found that children with an ADHD parent had higher rates of psychopathology and higher risk of comorbidities. Family and marital functioning are impaired by the presence of an affected parent regardless the gender.…”

Section: Clinical Applications Family Historymentioning

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Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Complex phenotype, simple genotype?

Acosta

Arcos‐Burgos

Muenke

2004

Genetics in Medicine

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Complex genetic traits refer to those phenotypes not fitting patterns of Mendelian segregation and/or assortment but exhibiting a preferential familial clustering that cannot be explained by cultural or environmental causes.Attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is the most common neurodevelopmental disorder of childhood and probably the most controversial. ADHD has been considered a complex genetic trait based upon the absence of a clear-cut boundary between affected and unaffected status. Furthermore, its high comorbidity with other disorders strongly suggests complex epistatic or pleiotropic effects acting in common with the environmental influences. This implies that the same gene or genes is or are associated with different and concurrently occurring phenotypes. In this study, we will review clinical and epidemiological aspects related to the ADHD phenotype, which are considered either as categorical or continuous traits. We also will discuss genetic models underlying the complexity of this behavioral phenotype and the probable role of epistatic interactions between major genes contributing to the ADHD phenotype. Genet Med 2004:6(1):1-15.

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The psychosocial functioning of children and spouses of adults with ADHD

Abstract: The results underscore the strong genetic contribution to ADHD and the need to carefully assess the non-ADHD parent as they seem to influence the well-being of non-ADHD children in families with an ADHD parent.

Cited by 128 publications

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The Role of Maternal and Child ADHD Symptoms in Shaping Interpersonal Relationships

The Role of Maternal and Child ADHD Symptoms in Shaping Interpersonal Relationships

Multilevel analysis of ADHD, anxiety and depression symptoms aggregation in families

Attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD): Complex phenotype, simple genotype?

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