The role of parenting in the intergenerational transmission of executive functioning: A genetically informed approach.

ABSTRACT: Deficits in executive functioning both run in families and serve as a transdiagnostic risk factor for psychopathology. The present study employed twin modeling to examine parenting as an environmental pathway underlying the intergenerational transmission of executive functioning in an at-risk community sample of children and adolescents (N = 354 pairs, 167 monozygotic). Using structural equation modeling of multi-informant reports of parenting and a multi-method measure of child executive functioning, we found that better parent executive functioning related to less harsh, warmer parenting, which in turn related to better child executive functioning. Second, we assessed the etiology of executive functioning via the nuclear twin family model, finding large non-shared environmental ef

SUBMITTER: Tomlinson RC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9922338 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature