The association between parental internalizing disorders and child school performance.

ABSTRACT: Parents play a crucial role in children's lives. Despite high prevalences of anxiety and depression, we do not know how these disorders among parents associate with child school performance in Norway. We use regression models to estimate associations between parental mental disorders and child school performance, while adjusting for some social and genetic confounders. Parental anxiety and depression were assessed from administrative registers of government funded health service consultations for all individuals in Norway with children born between 1992 and 2002. School performance was assessed as standardized grade point average at the end of compulsory education when children are 16 years old. Associations were also considered in samples of adoptees and among differentially affected sibl

SUBMITTER: Nordmo M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10480151 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature