Parents of adults with serious mental illness (SMI) often are primary caregivers for their affected relative. Prior work has suggested that the toll of caregiving is associated with poorer well-being in family caregivers, particularly parents of affected adults. However, due to methodological limitations, it has not been possible to assess these family caregivers' own genetic vulnerability to mental and physical health problems, and thus the impact of caregivers' genetic risk on well-being may not have been accounted for. With the addition of genetic data to large survey samples, family caregivers' genetic vulnerability to mental and physical health problems can now be estimated. Parents from the Wisconsin Longitudinal Study who have an adult child with an SMI ( = 265) and a comparison group of parents with a child without disabilities ( = 5,036) reported their psychological well-being and mental and physical health across 4 measures. Genetic vulnerability was assessed using polygenic risk scores of neuroticism, bipolar disorder, schizophrenia, and depression. Results indicate that the effect of having a child with an SMI still had significant effects for all 4 parental health outcomes even after controlling for these measures of genetic vulnerability. This study's results affirm the negative health impact of parenting a child with SMI, above and beyond genetic vulnerability. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2021 APA, all rights reserved).
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