Sexual Risk Behaviors in the Adolescent Offspring of Parents with XXXX : Prospective Associations with Parents' Personality and Externalizing Behavior in Childhood.

@entity1 @entity162 @entity146 @entity1316 @entity663
UNASSIGNED: We recently reported that adolescent and young adult offspring of parents with @entity162 (OBD), relative to control offspring, were more likely to engage in @entity146 ( @entity146 ). The present prospective study aimed to determine the contribution of parents' personality and offspring behaviour problems in middle childhood to offspring @entity146 10  years later. We hypothesized that offspring externalizing problems in childhood would mediate the relationship between parents' personality traits of @entity663 and agreeableness and adolescent @entity146 . Furthermore, we expected these associations to be more robust among the OBD than controls. At baseline, 102 offspring (52 OBD and 50 controls) aged between 4 and 14  years were assessed along with their parents, who completed a self-report personality measure and @entity1 behavior rating. Behaviour ratings were also obtained from the @entity1 's teachers. Ten years later the offspring completed an interview assessing @entity146 . Mediation analyses using bootstrapping revealed that, after controlling for age and presence of an @entity1316 , externalizing behaviors served as a pathway through which high parental @entity663 , low parental agreeableness, and low parental extraversion were related to @entity146 in offspring. Moderated mediation analyses revealed that the relationship between parental @entity663 and childhood externalizing problems was stronger for OBD than controls. These findings add to our previous results showing parents' personality contributes to intergenerational risk transfer through @entity146 in middle childhood. These results carry implications for optimal timing of preventative interventions in the OBD.
