Parenting plays a critical role in shaping emotional
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Parenting plays a critical role in shaping emotional development; however, how parenting practices interact with ADHD symptoms to influence ED, anger, and social functioning remains underexplored, particularly across cross‐national contexts
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Stated in the abstract section of the source papers, classified as general, drawn from work published between 2011 and 2025, spanning 3 journals. Those papers have been cited 52 times in total.
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Supporting evidence — 3 representative gaps
- Dissecting daily distress in mothers of children with ADHD: An electronic diary study. (2011) · Journal of Family Psychology · cited 51× · doi
It is well known that parents of children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) experience elevated levels of caregiver stress, but little is known about the ebb and flow of parental distress as it happens, or the degree of synchrony between short-term oscillations in child behaviors and maternal distress.
generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5Keywords: known distress well parents children attention deficit hyperactivity disorder adhd experience elevated levels caregiver stress - A dual cohort analysis of parenting practices, attention‐deficit/hyperactivity disorder symptoms, anger, and emotion dysregulation in middle childhood: Findings from a UK and Zurich sample (2025) · JCPP Advances · doi
Parenting plays a critical role in shaping emotional development; however, how parenting practices interact with ADHD symptoms to influence ED, anger, and social functioning remains underexplored, particularly across cross‐national contexts.
generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5Keywords: parenting plays critical role shaping emotional development practices interact adhd symptoms influence anger social functioning - The Interplay between Maternal Depression and ADHD Symptoms in Predicting Emotional and Attentional Functioning in Toddlerhood (2025) · Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology · cited 1× · doi
Despite the prevalence of this comorbidity, the combined effects of maternal depressive symptoms and ADHD on child development remain underexplored, particularly in early childhood, a critical period marked by heightened brain plasticity and reliance on external regulation.
generalstated in abstractevidence 5/5Keywords: despite prevalence comorbidity combined effects maternal depressive symptoms adhd child development remain underexplored particularly early
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