RT Journal Article
T1 Child/Adolescent’s ADHD and Parenting Stress: The Mediating Role of Family Impact and Conduct Problems
A1 Muñoz Silva, Alicia
A1 Lago Urbano, Rocío
A1 Sánchez García, Manuel
A1 Carmona Márquez, José
AB Objective: The demands of parenting are usually associated with some stress,and elevated levels of stress may affect the parent–child relationships and parentingpractices. This is especially the case of families where children have special needsconditions or disorders, like Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD).Method: This study examined parenting stress among mothers of children andadolescents with ADHD. The sample comprised 126 mothers of girls (36; 29%) andboys (90; 71%) aged 6–17 years old.Results: Mothers reported their own stress levels as well as the children andadolescents’ variables (severity of their ADHD symptoms, conduct, and emotionalproblems) and family–contextual variables (negative impact on family’s social life, impacton couple relationship, and perceived social support). Hierarchical multiple regressionshowed that (a) negative impact on social life and conduct problems were the strongestpredictors of mother’s stress. Bootstrap mediation analyses revealed that (b) theassociation between child and adolescent’s ADHD and parenting stress was mediatedby children’s conduct problems and by negative impact on family’s social life, andnot by children’s emotional problems nor by mother’s perceived social support. Themediation analysis also suggested (c) a pathway from child/adolescent’s ADHD throughchildren’s conduct problems and then through their negative impact on family’s sociallife to mother’s parenting stress.Conclusion: These results suggest that both child/adolescent’s and family factorsshould be considered in the designing of interventions for reducing parenting stressin families of children and adolescents with ADHD.
PB Frontiers Media
SN 1664-1078
YR 2017
FD 2017-12
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16105
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10272/16105
LA eng
NO Alicia Muñoz Silva, Rocío Lago Urbano, Manuel Sánchez García, José Carmona Márquez.  Child/Adolescent’s ADHD and Parenting Stress: The Mediating Role of Family Impact and Conduct Problems. Frontiers in Psychology, 8:2252. ESSN: 1664-1078. DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2017.02252
DS Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Huelva
RD 30 may 2026