Psychiatric disorders following the clustering of family disadvantages in previous generations: a multigenerational cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

There is a lack of multigenerational research on the extent to which mental health is informed by transmission of multiple disadvantages across previous generations. This study aims to investigate how family socioeconomic and psychosocial disadvantages cluster and transition over grandparental and parental generations, and how this might be associated with grandchild psychiatric disorders.

Methods

We utilized a cohort study with data following three generations from the Stockholm Birth Cohort Multigenerational Study, including 11,299 individuals born in 1953 (parental generation), their 22,598 parents (grandparental generation), and 24,707 adult children (grandchild generation). Family disadvantages as exposures were measured across two periods- grandparental adultho

SUBMITTER: Li B 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12855240 | biostudies-literature | 2026 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature