@article{7aeb72984b9442e59bd00352ac32da68,
title = "Maternal and paternal influences on childhood anxiety symptoms: A genetically sensitive comparison",
abstract = "This study tested the theory that anxious fathers pose a quantitatively different environmental influence on childhood anxiety than anxious mothers. The analysed sample contained 502 linked adoption units from the Early Growth and Development Study (EGDS), a longitudinal multisite study that follows 561 adopted children (57.2% boys) and their adoptive and birth parents, who were recruited through US adoption agencies. A Bayesian latent growth model predicted child anxiety symptoms between 18 months and 4.5 years from inherited (birth parent anxiety) and rearing parent anxiety. This model revealed little evidence for a difference in the influence of maternal and paternal rearing parent anxiety on child anxiety symptoms. Contrary to theoretical predictions, anxiety in the rearing father is likely to have an equivalent influence to that of the mother on both child anxiety symptoms at 18 months old and their developmental trajectory over the preschool years.",
author = "Field, {Andy P.} and Lester, {Kathryn J.} and Sam Cartwright-Hatton and Harold, {Gordon T.} and Shaw, {Daniel S.} and Natsuaki, {Misaki N.} and Ganiban, {Jody M.} and David Reiss and Neiderhiser, {Jenae M.} and Leve, {Leslie D.}",
note = "Funding Information: This project was supported by the following grants: (1) R01 HD042608 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development and the National Institute on Drug Abuse, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI Years 1–5: David Reiss, MD; PI Years 6–10: Leslie Leve, PhD); (2) R01 MH092118 from the National Institute of Mental Health, NIH, U.S. PHS (PIs: Jenae Neiderhiser, Ph.D. and Leslie Leve, Ph.D.); (3) R01 DA020585 from the National Institute on Drug Abuse, the National Institute of Mental Health and OBSSR, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI: Jenae Neiderhiser, Ph.D.); (4) R56 HD042608 from the Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health & Human Development, NIH, U.S. PHS (PI: Leslie Leve, PhD); (5) ES/5004467/1 from UKRI-ESRC (PI: Gordon Harold, PhD) (6) UG3/UH3 OD023389 from the Office of the Director, NIH, U.S. (PI: Leslie Leve, PhD). The content of this manuscript is solely the responsibility of the authors and does not necessarily represent the official views of the National Institute of Child Health & Human Development or the National Institutes of Health. Thanks to Edgar Merkle for responding quickly and helpfully to questions about the blavaan package. A pre-print of the manuscript and analysis scripts are posted at https://osf.io/zgcg2/",
year = "2020",
month = may,
day = "1",
doi = "10.1016/j.appdev.2020.101123",
language = "English (US)",
volume = "68",
journal = "Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology",
issn = "0193-3973",
publisher = "Elsevier BV",
}