Joint associations of parental personality traits and socio-economic position with trajectories of offspring depression: Findings from up to 6925 families in a UK birth cohort.

The offspring of mothers with high levels of maladaptive personality traits show evidence of greater depressive symptoms throughout adolescence although the absolute increase in symptoms is small. Evidence for the associations with fathers' personality was weaker. Socio-economic position and maladaptive personality traits appear to be independent risk factors for offspring depressive symptoms.