Adolescent internalizing symptoms: The importance of multi-informant assessments in childhood
| Autor: | Daniel S. Nagin, Sylvana M. Côté, Marie C. Navarro, Marilyn N. Ahun, Maria Melchior, Cédric Galéra, Sînziana I. Oncioiu, Massimiliano Orri, Richard E. Tremblay |
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| Rok vydání: | 2019 |
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Multi informant Population sample Adolescent education Large population Mothers Anxiety Cohort Studies 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine Medicine Humans High group HEALTHY Child Depression (differential diagnoses) Group membership business.industry Depression 030227 psychiatry Psychiatry and Mental health Clinical Psychology Generalized anxiety Cohort Female Self Report business 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Clinical psychology |
| Zdroj: | Journal of affective disorders. 266 |
| ISSN: | 1573-2517 |
| Popis: | Childhood internalizing symptoms can be associated with adolescent internalizing symptoms, but only a small proportion of symptomatic children are at long-term risk. Our objectives were to (1) distinguish between typical and atypical levels of internalizing symptoms using mother- and teacher-assessments and (2) test the association between childhood internalizing symptoms and adolescent generalized anxiety, depression, and social phobia symptoms in boys and girls.Multi-trajectory models were used to estimate the evolution of mother- and teacher-reported internalizing symptoms across childhood (1.5 to 12 years) in a large population-based cohort (n = 1431). Multiple linear regression models were implemented to estimate the association between childhood group membership of internalizing symptoms and self-reported specific internalizing symptoms at 15 years by sex.Five groups of childhood internalizing symptoms were identified: Motherteacher low (22.6%), Mother moderate/teacher low (37.9%), Mother moderate/teacher high (18.3%), Mother high/teacher low (11.8%) and Motherteacher high (9.5%). Multiple linear regression models showed that compared to the low group, (1) boys in the high group reported higher social phobia symptoms (p = 0.04), (2) girls in the high group reported higher depression (p = 0.01) and generalized anxiety (p 0.01) symptoms, and (3) girls in the moderate/high group reported higher generalized anxiety symptoms (p = 0.02) in adolescence.The main limitation is that mothers' and teachers' assessments mostly covered different developmental periods.A multi-informant assessment of childhood internalizing symptoms improves adolescent specific internalizing symptoms identification in a general population sample over reliance on a single informant. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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