Child and parent predictors of perceptions of parent--child relationship quality.
OBJECTIVE
Predictors of perceptions of parent-child relationship quality were examined for 175 children with ADHD, 119 comparison children, and parents of these children, drawn from the follow-up phase of the Multimodal Treatment Study of Children with ADHD.


CONCLUSIONS
Children with ADHD perceived their mothers and fathers as more power assertive than comparison children. Children higher on depressive symptomatology also perceived their mothers and fathers as less warm and more power assertive. Mothers perceived themselves as more power assertive and fathers perceived themselves as less warm if they were higher on depressive symptomatology themselves or had children with ADHD or higher levels of depressive symptomatology. Several interactions indicated that the association between child factors and parental perceptions of warmth and power assertion often depended on parental depressive symptomatology. The findings resolve a previous contradiction in the literature regarding the relationship between child depressive symptoms and parental perceptions of parent-child relationship quality.
Gerdes
Alyson C
AC
Marquette University, USA.
Hoza
Betsy
B
Arnold
L Eugene
LE
Hinshaw
Stephen P
SP
Wells
Karen C
KC
Hechtman
Lily
L
Greenhill
Laurence L
LL
Swanson
James M
JM
Pelham
William E
WE
Wigal
Timothy
T
D000339:Affect; D001242:Assertiveness; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D001521:Behavior Therapy; D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002648:Child; D003131:Combined Modality Therapy; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D005219:Father-Child Relations; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009034:Mother-Child Relations; D011209:Power, Psychological
D000697:Central Nervous System Stimulants