TY - JOUR
T1 - Parental Age and Offspring Childhood Mental Health
T2 - A Multi-Cohort, Population-Based Investigation
AU - Zondervan-Zwijnenburg, Maria A J
AU - Veldkamp, Sabine
AU - Neumann, Alexander
AU - Barzeva, Stefania A
AU - Nelemans, Stefanie A
AU - van Beijsterveldt, C.E.M.
AU - Branje, Susan J T
AU - Hillegers, Manon H J
AU - Meeus, Wim H J
AU - Tiemeier, Henning
AU - Hoijtink, Herbert J A
AU - Oldehinkel, Albertine J
AU - Boomsma, D.I.
N1 - © 2019 The Authors Child Development published by Wiley Periodicals, Inc. on behalf of Society for Research in Child Development.
PY - 2020/5
Y1 - 2020/5
N2 - To examine the contributions of maternal and paternal age on offspring externalizing and internalizing problems, this study analyzed problem behaviors at age 10-12 years from four Dutch population-based cohorts (N = 32,892) by a multiple informant design. Bayesian evidence synthesis was used to combine results across cohorts with 50% of the data analyzed for discovery and 50% for confirmation. There was evidence of a robust negative linear relation between parental age and externalizing problems as reported by parents. In teacher-reports, this relation was largely explained by parental socio-economic status. Parental age had limited to no association with internalizing problems. Thus, in this large population-based study, either a beneficial or no effect of advanced parenthood on child problem behavior was observed.
AB - To examine the contributions of maternal and paternal age on offspring externalizing and internalizing problems, this study analyzed problem behaviors at age 10-12 years from four Dutch population-based cohorts (N = 32,892) by a multiple informant design. Bayesian evidence synthesis was used to combine results across cohorts with 50% of the data analyzed for discovery and 50% for confirmation. There was evidence of a robust negative linear relation between parental age and externalizing problems as reported by parents. In teacher-reports, this relation was largely explained by parental socio-economic status. Parental age had limited to no association with internalizing problems. Thus, in this large population-based study, either a beneficial or no effect of advanced parenthood on child problem behavior was observed.
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U2 - 10.1111/cdev.13267
DO - 10.1111/cdev.13267
M3 - Article
C2 - 31364163
SN - 0009-3920
VL - 91
SP - 964
EP - 982
JO - Child Development
JF - Child Development
IS - 3
ER -