Intergenerational transmission of parental neuroticism to emotional problems in 8-year-old children: Genetic and environmental influences.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Children of parents with high levels of neuroticism tend to have high neuroticism themselves as well as increased risk of experiencing symptoms of anxiety and depression. It is not yet clear how much of this link is attributable to a potential effect of parent on child (e.g., via a socializing effect) versus to shared genetic risk. We aimed to determine whether there is an intergenerational association after accounting for genetic transmission and assortative mating.

Methods

We used data from the Norwegian Mother, Father and Child Cohort Study including 11,088 sibling pairs in the parental generation, their partners (N = 22,176) and their offspring (N = 26,091). Exposures were maternal and paternal neuroticism (self-reported), and the outcomes were n

SUBMITTER: Ask H 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10242898 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature