The importance of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptomatology and related domains of impairment.

ABSTRACT: Parents of children with ADHD experience several difficulties while raising their children and report lower levels of knowledge about their children's life and behaviors. A recent study found that low levels of parental knowledge mediated the association between ADHD symptoms and risk-taking behavior (RTB) in adolescents. The current study aimed to investigate this previous finding further by replicating it, by taking peer influence into account as additional social factor of importance and by extending it and also investigate the role of parental knowledge in the association between ADHD symptoms and homework problems. Three studies were performed: study 1 (N=234) replicated previous work on parental knowledge mediating the association between ADHD symptoms and RTB, study 2 (pre-registere

SUBMITTER: Dekkers TJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8041705 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature