00:00 Introduction
00:30 Discussion of trade (internet) media article on a scientific study on parenting in early childhood and risk for ADHD symptoms later in development
02:48 Review of that scientific study itself on child temperament, parenting, and later ADHD
06:08 What is exuberant temperament and how is it related to ADHD symptoms
07:52 Back to further discussion of the study on temperament, parenting and child ADHD
08:30 Discussion of another study on parent and child genetics, parent and child ADHD, parenting behavior, and later ADHD symptoms in the children.
14:28 PowerPoint graph explaining the likely relationship of parental ADHD and their genetics, child ADHD and their genetics, child temperament, and risk for later ADHD
17:57 Conclusion

This video discusses a paper recently summarized in the trade (internet) media on the relationship of early childhood temperament (exuberance), executive functioning (inhibition), parenting styles, and later ADHD in children. Although the results demonstrate a correlation of parenting style with risk for later ADHD in exuberant children, the findings are only correlational. Yet the authors (and the journalist summarizing the study) conclude that the findings show that changing parenting could therefore prevent or reduce the risk for later ADHD in such children. I show how there is just as compelling an alternative explanation, likely more correct, that the undirective, inattentive parenting style shown to be associated with ADHD could easily be a marker for adult ADHD in the parents, which is actually the contributing risk for ADHD in the children. It may not be the parenting style at all or minimally. I then cite a. more recent much larger study that used parent and child genetics, parent and child ADHD symptoms, parenting behavior, and other measures to show that the greatest contribution to risk for child ADHD is parental ADHD and parental genetics. Heritable genetic factors explain 57% of the variance in child ADHD severity of symptoms while parenting behavior contributes only 2% of the variance in child risk for ADHD symptoms. Thus it is likely that alterations in parenting style would likely not prevent or reduce the risk for ADHD in exuberant children, who are likely already manifesting the early signs of ADHD given the nature of exuberant termpament.

References

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Lorenzo, N. et al. (November 2023). The Developmental Unfolding of ADHD Symptoms from Early Childhood Through Adolescence: Early Effects of Exuberant Temperament, Parenting and Executive Functioning. Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology. https://link.springer.com/article/10....

What is exuberance? Google search page. https://www.google.com/search?client=...

Kleppesto, T. H. (November 2023). Intergenerational transmission of ADHD behaviors: genetic and environmental pathways. Psychological Medicine. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journa...