Long-term effects of grandparental child neglect on adult grandchildren's mental health: <i>A three-generation study</i>.

ABSTRACT: Child neglect is a significant social problem with severe consequences for individuals and society. This study explores how intergenerational transmission of grandparental child neglect affects grandchildren's mental health in adulthood. We utilize a three-generational dataset from the Tromsø Study and estimate a linear probability model to find the distinct roles of both maternal and paternal grandparents. We test the additive risk hypothesis for continuous, intergenerational effects of child neglect in both the maternal and paternal lineages. Furthermore, we use structural equation modeling to test how sequential exposures to neglect across generations ultimately bear on adult mental health outcomes. Our results confirm the additive risk hypothesis but only for maternal grandparents: our

SUBMITTER: Sarı E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11471239 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature