title: Association of parental ADHD and depression with externalizing and internalizing dimensions of child psychopathology.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To study the independent association of parental depression and ADHD on three dimensions of child psychopathology among 178 children aged 5 to 10 years.
  
  
  METHODS
  Self-reported measures of parental depression and ADHD as well as rating scales and structure diagnostic interviews of child internalizing, ADHD, and externalizing problems were obtained.
  
  
  RESULTS
  Structural equation modeling indicated that parental ADHD was positively associated with a broad child problems factor after a second-order factor of child problems best accounted for the high intercorrelations among the internalizing, ADHD, and externalizing child psychopathology factors. Parental depression did not significantly predict the second-order child problems factor, but it specifically predicted the child internalizing factor.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  These results suggest that parental ADHD may be a nonspecific risk factor for child psychopathology broadly, whereas parental depression may function as a specific risk factor for child internalizing problems.
authors.affiliation: University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), CA 90095-1563, USA.
authors.forename: Kathryn L
authors.initials: KL
authors.lastname: Humphreys
authors.forename: Natasha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Mehta
authors.forename: Steve S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Lee
mesh_terms: D001007:Anxiety / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D001289:Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002653:Child Behavior Disorders / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003863:Depression / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000523:psychology; D003866:Depressive Disorder / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010290:Parents / Q000523:psychology*; D012307:Risk Factors; D057566:Self Report