Forfattere
Fartein Ask Torvik, Espen Moen Eilertsen, Tom A. McAdams, Kristin Gustavson, Henrik Daae Zachrisson, Ragnhild Brandlistuen, Line C. Gjerde, Alexandra Havdahl, Camilla Stoltenberg, Helga Ask & Eivind Ystrom.
Abstract
Background
Low educational attainment in parents is associated with child psychopathology. It is not clear whether the associations are due to risk factors that family members share or due to effects of maternal or paternal education on the offspring. We investigate whether associations between maternal and paternal educational attainment and child symptoms of attention deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), depression, and academic problems are due to shared genetic factors, shared family environmental factors, or effects of the parental phenotype educational attainment itself.