The Relationship of Parental Personality Disorders With Offspring Eating Disorders at Childhood and Adolescence Age Publisher Pubmed



Pourdehghan P¹ ; Mohammadi MR¹ ; Mostafavi SA¹ ; Khaleghi A¹ ; Ahmadi N² Show Affiliations
Source: Child Psychiatry and Human Development Published:2024

Abstract

This study aimed to investigate parents’ PDs that could be associated with children and adolescents’ EDs. We studied association of parental PDs with offspring EDs in age group 6–18 years in a nationally representative sample of Iranians with 27,111 children and adolescents and their parents. We used a multistage random cluster sampling method. We used Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory-Third Edition and Persian present and lifetime version of Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia to measure parental PDs and children and adolescents’ EDs, respectively. We used descriptive statistics and binary logistic regression analysis methods to analyze the data. Maternal but not paternal PDs were significantly associated with EDs in offspring. Maternal antisocial, borderline, schizoid, histrionic, and compulsive PDs were significantly associated with EDs in offspring by 32.06, 4.66, 4.32, 3.15, and 1.71 odd ratios, respectively. Of EDs in offspring, anorexia nervosa and binge ED were significantly associated with maternal PDs. © The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Science+Business Media, LLC, part of Springer Nature 2022.