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Socio-demographic and clinical correlates of parenting style among parents having ADHD children: a cross-section study

Middle East Current Psychiatry volume 28, Article number: 72 (2021) Cite this article

Abstract

Background

ADHD affects 7.8% of the school-aged population, making it one of the most common childhood brain illnesses. It is characterized by abnormally high levels of inattention, activity, and impulsivity at a young age. Being a parent of a child with ADHD is a real challenge, as the parents tend to be more disapproving, critical, and provide more impulse control directions; such parenting style can have an impact on the illnesses course, accentuate its signs and symptoms, and lead to secondary development of co-morbid psychiatric and behavioral problems. This makes the parent-child effect a matter of clinical importance that needs to be carefully assessed and managed. We aimed to estimate the sociodemographic and clinical correlates of parenting attitudes among parents having ADHD children. This cross-sectional study included 48 ADHD children from both sexes, aged from 6 to 12 years old, and their parents. In our study, we applied the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 5th edition, the Conner’s Parent Rating Scale-revised, the parenting style as perceived by children questionnaire, and the Fahmy and El-Sherbini questionnaire for the measurement of socioeconomic status.

Results

Mothers of ADHD children had significantly lower scores of over-protections parenting style than the fathers; the current study showed a significant increase in total parenting scores and warmth/support in mild ADHD cases than in moderate and severe ones, and there is a significant increase in the mother’s positive parenting style toward ADHD children with lower levels of social problems, mild cases, and older age. There is a significant increase of positive parenting style toward ADHD children exerted by post graduated, professionally working, and high social class fathers and by working mothers among rural residents and high social class mothers. There is a positive correlation between IQ and a mother’s warmth/support.

Conclusion

ADHD children with mild symptoms, higher social functioning of the child, high socioeconomic level of the family, better education, and professional occupations of parents were associated with positive parenting style.

Background

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is a neurodevelopmental illness that affects children and is marked by hyperactivity, impulsivity, and inattention that are out of character for their age. According to DSM 5, there are 3 subtypes of the disorder: inattentive type, hyperactive/impulsive type, and combined type [1].

ADHD has an early onset with a worldwide prevalence between 5 and 7.2% [2]. It is diagnosed in boys about three times higher than in girls [3]. Prognosis, co-morbidity, and persistence of ADHD symptoms through adolescence and adulthood are affected by many factors including family characteristics [4].

Parenting behavior is mainly composed of two inter-related dimensions; effective behavioral control, motional responsiveness to the child [5]. According to these two dimensions, there are four general broad styles of parenting: (1) authoritative parents, (2) authoritarian parents, (3) indulgent parents, (4) and neglectful parents [6].

Furthermore, certain parental attitudes were reported through research to be associated with an increase in children’s behavioral and emotional problems such as discrimination, inconsistent discipline, overprotection, and harsh discipline [7]

Parents of ADHD children need to exert more effort to ameliorate the behavior, to support academic work, and to compensate their children deregulation. These parents tend to see the behavior of their children with mean intent [8] which increases conflict and stress. Some parents of children with ADHD especially mothers tend to work fewer hours or even quit their jobs because their children need more assistance [9]. Due to children’s ADHD symptomology, their parents are less engaging and less warm than other parents of normal children [10]; they may respond with high levels of verbal aggression and disciplinary measures to troublesome behaviors [11], which makes their children respond negatively, influencing a bidirectional process. This process may negatively affect broad child outcomes, increase noncompliance in classroom and playground activities, and stealing among children with ADHD [12].

Demanding, temperamental, and uncooperative ADHD children have been noted to make it difficult for their parents to manage their behavior [13]. Temperament traits can be considered as an early emerging sign of behavioral tendencies that may create vulnerability for ADHD. Deater-Deckard et al. (2014) suggested that the family factors, such as parenting, influence the development and maintenance of self-regulation [14]. Negative parenting may thus interfere with the development of self-control [15], contributing to the rise and maintenance of child psychopathology, such as ADHD [16]. Also, children who have low control over temperament and are highly impulsive are more vulnerable to the negative consequences of bad parenting [17, 18].

Deault et al. (2010) found that ADHD is associated with problematic family functioning, including higher rates of parental psychopathology and conflicted parent-child relationships, exacerbated in children with comorbid ODD and CD [19].

Unlike the wide use of medication in the treatment of ADHD, psychosocial treatment is rare in most communities [20]. Psychosocial treatment needs to be evident to produce significant improvements in child functioning and health for communities to commit resources for it. A variety of behavioral parent training (BPT) protocols for parents of children with ADHD and associated behavior problems have been developed, BPT is an evidence-based psychosocial treatment that focuses on increasing positive and decreasing negative parenting through instruction and practice in effective caretaking strategies. It is intended to produce sustained improvement in child behavior indirectly through the promotion of effective parenting strategies. Parents are specifically instructed to engage in positive monitoring and attendance, set clear expectations, and provide consistent positive and negative outcomes [21].

Method

Study site, design, and participant

This study is cross-sectional. It was held at the Zagazig University Hospitals’ out-patient child psychiatry clinic between November 1, 2020, and April 30, 2021.

Our study involved 48 ADHD children with their parents. A comprehensive sample was estimated to be 48 children fulfilling the diagnostic criteria of ADHD, collected during a period of 6 months (November 2020–April 2021), as the rate of cases was approximately 8 cases/month. All the children who attended at the clinic for the first time during the period of sample collection with a complaint of inattentiveness and/or hyperactivity or who were newly diagnosed with ADHD during this period were screened to determine their eligibility for participation in the study according to specific inclusion and exclusion criteria. We included the children who have been diagnosed with ADHD according to the diagnostic criteria of DSM 5 and aged from 6 to 12 years old without chronic medical illness and their parents don't have another child with a chronic medical condition or psychiatric disorder. Both sex and all socioeconomic class were included. We excluded all the ADHD children who have parents with known chronic health problems or who have a history of psychiatric disorders. And parents who cannot read or write the Arabic language or those who refused to participate.

A written informed consent was obtained with the approval of the Ethical Committee.

Study tools

The following psychometric assessments were made to the participants enrolled in the study:

  1. (a)

    Semi-structured interview for the child and one of or both parents according to the psychiatric sheet of child unite of Psychiatry Department of Zagazig University Hospital to collect detailed child psychiatric history and child evaluation through a comprehensive interview including mental status and physical examination.

  2. (b)

    The Arabic version Conner’s Parent Rating Scale-revised L [22]: It is a screening questionnaire prepared for the parents to detect if their children aged 3 to 17 have ADHD. It consists of 80 questions for parents to respond, each with four answers to choose one of them: 0 (not at all), 1 (just a little), 2 (pretty much), or 3 (very much). It assesses the severity of attention deficit, hyperactivity, and impulsive symptoms in addition to diagnosing ADHD. The National Institute of Mental Health approved the scale's validity, reliability, and stability. It was translated by Dr Al-Behairy A, AglaanA. (2009) [23].

  3. (c)

    Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale 5th edition: It was applied on the ADHD children. This test was designed to test the cognitive abilities and the intelligence; it is used for ages starting from 2 up to 89 years and provides a full-scale IQ. The SB5 index is composed of five components: fluid reasoning, knowledge, quantitative reasoning, visual-spatial processing, and working memory (subtests are grouped together to form one of the two domains or one of the five factor indices: The two domains or the five factor indexes are added together to obtain the full-scale IQ score [24]. Cronbach’s alpha for the full-scale IQ scores were 0.97 to 0.98. Verbal and nonverbal IQ scores have coefficients of 0.95 to 0.96 [25].

  4. (d)

    Parenting style as perceived by children questionnaire: This scale includes 60 items divided into 5 subscales; one subscale represents positive parenting attitudes (warmth/support) and 4 subscales represent negative parenting attitudes: harsh control, inconsistency, overprotection, and discrimination. The subject replies to each phrase twice; the first is that represents his perception of the father’s attitude while the other reflects the mother’s attitude besidesthe total score. The items should be answered by the child, only by yes or no. All the items of the positive subscale are positive so that choosing yes as an answer for an item of this subscale equals 2, while choosing no equals 1 and vice versa in the 4 negative subscales. The higher the score of the positive subscale the more warmth and support perceived by the child. On contrary, the higher the score of the negative subscales the less negative parental attitudes were perceived by the child. The total score ranges from 60 to 120 and the higher the score the more positive attitudes perceived by the child. This scale was developed in Arabic by Prof. Dr. Amany Abd El Maksoud, Menofia University, 2013 [26]

  5. (e)

    Updated version of Fahmy and El-Sherbini Questionnaire for measurement of socioeconomic status [27]: The updated scale had seven domains with a total score of 84, with a higher score indicating higher socioeconomic status: occupation, education, culture, family possessions, home sanitation, economic, and health care. The updated scale included all the variables of the previous one. The updated scale was tested for content validity by two panels of the Psychiatric Department experts. These experts assessed the tools for clarity, relevance, comprehensiveness, applicability, and understanding.

The reliability of the updated scale was tested by measuring their internal consistency. It demonstrated an excellent level of reliability (Cronbach’s alpha = 0.81).

Statistical analysis

The collected data were computerized and statistically analyzed using the SPSS program (Statistical Package for Social Science) version 25.0 [28]. Qualitative data were represented as frequencies and relative percentages. Chi-square test was used to calculate the difference between qualitative variables. Quantitative data were expressed as mean ± SD (Standard deviation). Independent T test was used to calculate the difference between quantitative variables in two groups in normally distributed data. ANOVA F-test test was used to calculate the difference between quantitative variables in more than two groups in normally distributed data. Pearson correlation coefficient was used to calculate the correlation between quantitative variables.

Results

The current study found that the mean age of the studied group was 8.6 (6–12). Most of them were male (85.4%), 1st child (58.3%), in public school (56.2%), and living in urban areas (54.2%). The majority of their fathers’ (47.9%) and of their mothers’ (60.4%) educational level was secondary school or intermediate institute. Only 27.1% of their fathers had a professional job and most of their mothers (64.6%) were housewives; most of their families (45.8%) were of the middle social class. 29.2% of the parents of the studied group had positive consanguinity, and most of the studied children (68.7%) had a family history of psychiatric problems: most frequent among parents (41.7%).

As regard parenting scores among the studied group, this study found that mothers of ADHD children had significantly lower scores of overprotection parenting style (high levels of overprotection among mothers) than the fathers (Table 1).

Table 1 Parenting score among the studied group
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In the relationship between child characteristics and parenting attitudes of the father, the current study showed a significant increase in total parenting scores and warmth/support in mild ADHD cases than in moderate and severe (Table 2); as regard parenting attitudes of mothers, the study showed a significant increase in total and harsh control scores (means a low level of harsh control) among ADHD children aged from 10 to 12 years old, in total warmth/support and harsh control scores among ADHD children who have lower levels of social problems, and in total and warmth/support scores among mild cases (Table 3).

Table 2 Relationship between child characteristics and parenting attitudes of father
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Table 3 Relationship between child characteristics and parenting attitudes of mothers
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The relationship between family characteristics and parenting attitudes of fathers showed an increase in total warmth/support, harsh control, and inconsistency scores (means low levels of harsh control and inconsistency) among post-graduated educated fathers and increase in total warmth/support, harsh control, discrimination, and inconsistency scores (means low levels of harsh control, discrimination, and inconsistency) among professionally working fathers. There was an increase in warmth/support among high social class (Table 4), but the relationship with parenting attitudes of mothers showed an increase in total and inconsistency scores among post-graduated educated mothers, increase in total harsh control, discrimination, and inconsistency scores among professionally working mothers, increase in total score among rural residents, and an increase in total discrimination and inconsistency scores among high social class (Table 5).

Table 4 Relationship between family characteristics and parenting attitudes of father
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Table 5 Relationship between family characteristics and parenting attitudes of mothers
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Additionally, a positive correlation between IQ and mother’s warmth/support among the studied group was found (Table 6).

Table 6 Correlation between IQ and parenting among the studied group
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Discussion

Parents of children with ADHD tend to use inappropriate parenting styles, they are more disapproving, critical, provide more impulse control directions and display poorer monitoring and more corporal punishment than parents of children without ADHD [29] trying to control disruptive behaviors which are of the main characteristics of the hyperactive-impulsive type of ADHD [30]. These parenting styles can affect the course of the illness, exacerbate its manifestations, and give rise to secondary development of co-morbid psychiatric and maladaptive behaviors such as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and aggression [31].

This study has therefore been carried out to evaluate the parenting attitudes of parents of those children and to explore their associations with child and family characteristics.

The results of this study revealed 48% of the studied group fathers and about 60% of the mother’s educational level was a secondary school or intermediate institute, while about a third of the sample’s fathers and less than a third of the sample’s mothers were university graduates or post-graduates; these findings are consistent with [32]. A possible explanation of such a result could be that the poor parenting skills in low-educated parents may lead to negative attitudes in treating children which in turn could worsen the clinical presentation of ADHD which in turn push the family to seek help. However, this wasn’t the case in other studies which found no significant association between parents’ education and ADHD [33, 34].

Regarding the work of the parents, more than two-thirds of the study populations were in non-professional occupations. This is consistent with [35] and in contrast, Al-Hamed et al. (2009) and Ford et al. (2004) found no association between father occupation and ADHD in their offspring [36, 37].

It was also noteworthy that about 65% of mothers were housewives. This finding is contrary to Malek et al. (2012) which have considered maternal employment as a probable predictive factor for ADHD [38]. In the present study, it seems that maternal employment may have played a protective role in regard to the mental health of the sample children due to better economic chances, higher education of employed mothers, and have more chances to interact with the external world and acquire a daily knowledge which may help mothers for better understanding of their children.

Regarding parenting attitudes, the current study shows a significant increase in maternal overprotection compared to fathers. In reviewing the literature, prior studies have documented this association between maternal overprotection and ADHD symptoms of their children [39, 40]. On the contrary, Khafi et al. (2019) found no association [41].

The current study shows that children whose ages ranging from 10 to 12 perceived their mothers’ attitudes as more positive and less harsh and controlling than younger children. This result could be explained by the notion of a delayed developmental trajectory in ADHD rather than a fixed deficit [42]. Since older children are more capable of controlling their disruptive behavior, this could positively reflect on their relationship with their parents and more obviously with their mothers as they are more likely to spend longer time with them than fathers.

If we now turn to the relation between parenting attitudes and severity of ADHD, the results of this study show that children with mild ADHD reported their parents’ attitudes as more positive and warmer. This finding is consistent with Choenni et al. (2019) who found that higher levels of maternal sensitivity were associated with low severe forms of ADHD [43]. Additionally, Nelson et al. (2019) discovered that extreme child hyperactivity at the age of 5.5 years enhanced mothers’ anger toward their children at the age of 10, leading to higher delinquency and aggressiveness in adolescence [44]. On the contrary, Johnston et al. (2002) found that maternal responsiveness was not related to the severity of the child’s ADHD symptoms but the child’s conduct problems [45].

Regarding the relation between parenting attitudes and social functioning, the current results show an association between children with average social problems and more positive, warm, supportive, and less harsh mothers’ attitudes. These findings are consistent with those of Bhide et al. (2019) who discovered that greater parenting warmth and lower parenting anger were related to increased child pro-social behavior, self-control, and responsibility among children with ADHD [46]. Furthermore, Fenesy et al. (2019) discovered that child ADHD symptoms and poor parenting interactions were the only factors that predicted independent parent- and teacher-rated social issues [47].

Regarding the relation between parenting attitudes and family characteristics, a significant result of the current study was the association between families of high social class and more positive, consistent, and less discriminating parenting attitudes of mother and more warm and supportive parenting attitudes of the father. These findings are in line with Russell et al. (2015) who observed that fathers with higher salaries reported greater participation with their children and that financial troubles in those families have adverse effects on aspects of parenting and the family/home environment [48].

In regard to parenting attitudes concerning parents’ characteristics, results show that there were associations between more positive, consistent, and less harsh parenting attitudes with post-graduated parents and parents with professional professions. In reviewing the literature, we found a small body of research regarding this domain. However, one study by Johnston et al. (2002) found that better-educated mothers were more responsive with their children diagnosed with ADHD, and responsiveness was significantly, negatively related to reports of harsh parenting strategies [45]. If it is possible to hypothesize that parenting stress is negatively related to positive parenting, thus the current results are not in accordance to Anastopoulos et al. (1992), Harrison and Sofronoff (2002), and Mash and Johnston (1983) who discovered that maternal education, financial difficulties, and socioeconomic status are unrelated to parenting stress in families with ADHD children [49,50,51]. Our finding could be explained by the fact that higher educational level and professional occupations of parents could increase family income; decrease stress related to finance and in turn could provide children with better medical and psychological care that would improve their symptoms. Moreover, high education could help parents to better understand the nature of ADHD and in turn better handle their children’s behavior. All of these factors could improve the parent-child relationship.

Another significant result in regard to family characteristics was the association between rural residents and more positive parenting attitudes of mothers than children from other areas. Due to the small number of children from rural areas in the current study, this result should be regarded with caution. The current results could be because living in urban areas could impose more stress on parents than living in rural in terms of social support, safe environment, and living expenses which could be easier to attain in rural areas than in urban areas. No data on this relation with ADHD was discovered in a study of the literature. Studies on parenting of normally developing children, on the other hand, were discovered. But Wahini and Ismawati (2005) found that urban moms experience more violence and neglect than rural moms [52]; Dewanggi et al. (2015) revealed that maternal acceptance was higher in urban than rural areas, while abuse, neglect, and maternal rejection were greater in rural regions [53].

We found a positive correlation between a child’s IQ and mother warmth and support, and this finding supports the finding of Craig et al. (2019) who observed a negative relationship between total parenting stress of mothers and IQ of children with ADHD [54] and the finding of Khafi et al. (2019) who observed that IQ of the child with ADHD was negatively related to maternal insensitivity in treating her child [41].

Finally, our findings cannot be interpreted apart from few study limitations: first, the relatively small sample size; second, our sample did not include a control group which could add more value to our results; third, the potential biases introduced by the use of retrospective and self-report data collection must be assumed. Some information was drawn from history such as a psychiatric history of the family. Fourth, because this was a cross-sectional study, the causal factors or directivity of the associations could not be determined; therefore, future longitudinal studies are required.

Conclusions

ADHD children with mild symptoms, higher social functioning of the child, high socioeconomic level of the family, better education, and professional occupations of parents were associated with positive parenting.

Availability of data and materials

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Abbreviations

ADHD:

Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder

DSM 5:

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-5

BPT:

Behavioral parent training

SPSS:

Statistical Package for Social Science

SD:

Standard deviation

ODD:

Oppositional defiant disorder

IQ:

Intelligence quotient

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GMS, AMY, AEM, and ASI designed the work and applied the psychometric assessment. GMS, AMY, AEM, and ASI interviewed the participants for diagnosing the psychiatric disorders if present. All authors contributed to the conception, preparation, and writing of this article. AMY gave the paper a final review and GMS forwarded the manuscript for publication. All authors have read and approved the manuscript.

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El-Deen, G.M.S., Yousef, A.M., Mohamed, A.E. et al. Socio-demographic and clinical correlates of parenting style among parents having ADHD children: a cross-section study. Middle East Curr Psychiatry 28, 72 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s43045-021-00151-3

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Keywords

  • ADHD
  • Children
  • Parenting style