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Parental Cognitive Errors Mediate Parental Psychopathology and Ratings of Child Inattention
Author(s) -
Haack Lauren M.,
Jiang Yuan,
Delucchi Kevin,
Kaiser Nina,
McBurnett Keith,
Hinshaw Stephen,
Pfiffner Linda
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
family process
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.011
H-Index - 74
eISSN - 1545-5300
pISSN - 0014-7370
DOI - 10.1111/famp.12252
Subject(s) - psychology , psychopathology , cognition , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , depression (economics) , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , psychiatry , economics , macroeconomics , psychotherapist
We investigate the Depression‐Distortion Hypothesis in a sample of 199 school‐aged children with ADHD ‐Predominantly Inattentive presentation ( ADHD ‐I) by examining relations and cross‐sectional mediational pathways between parental characteristics (i.e., levels of parental depressive and ADHD symptoms) and parental ratings of child problem behavior (inattention, sluggish cognitive tempo, and functional impairment) via parental cognitive errors. Results demonstrated a positive association between parental factors and parental ratings of inattention, as well as a mediational pathway between parental depressive and ADHD symptoms and parental ratings of inattention via parental cognitive errors. Specifically, higher levels of parental depressive and ADHD symptoms predicted higher levels of cognitive errors, which in turn predicted higher parental ratings of inattention. Findings provide evidence for core tenets of the Depression‐Distortion Hypothesis, which state that parents with high rates of psychopathology hold negative schemas for their child's behavior and subsequently, report their child's behavior as more severe.