<p>A team of researchers led by <a href="https://www.mcgill.ca/edu-ecp/tina-montreuil">Tina Montreuil</a>, Associate Professor in McGill’s Department of Educational and Counselling Psychology and Scientist in the <a href="https://rimuhc.ca/child-health-and-human-development-program">Child Health and Human Development Program</a> at the Research Institute of the McGill University Health Centre (RI-MUHC), has found that slightly higher, but mild anxious or depressive symptoms in fathers were associated with fewer behavioural difficulties in the first years of elementary school and better scores on a standardized IQ test in their children. Their findings are published in <a href="https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1218384/full#:~:text=These%20findings%20suggest%20that%20higher,future%20research%20directions%20are%20discussed.&text=Received%3A%2009%20May%202023%3B%20Accepted%3A%2013%20Sep%202023."><em>Frontiers in Psychology</em></a>.</p>