Trajectories of aggressive and depressive symptoms in male and female overweight children. Do they share a common path or do they follow different routes?
| Autor: | Renata Tambelli, Luca Cerniglia, Michela Erriu, Stanislav Jezek, Silvia Cimino, Carlos A. Almenara |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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body mass index
child child development child preschool female humans longitudinal studies male models biological pediatric obesity sex factors aggression depression biochemistry genetics and molecular biology (all) agricultural and biological sciences (all) Physiology Emotions Poison control Social Sciences lcsh:Medicine Overweight Families 0302 clinical medicine Sociology Medicine and Health Sciences Psychology Mental health and psychiatry 030212 general & internal medicine Early childhood lcsh:Science Children Body mass index Multidisciplinary Schools Depression genetics and molecular biology (all) 3. Good health Physiological Parameters Child Preschool medicine.symptom Psychosocial Psychopathology Research Article Childhood Obesity Models Biological preschool Education 03 medical and health sciences models 030225 pediatrics Injury prevention Mental Health and Psychiatry medicine biochemistry Obesity Behavior business.industry Mood Disorders Body Weight lcsh:R Biology and Life Sciences nutritional and metabolic diseases Age Groups People and Places Population Groupings lcsh:Q business Weight gain biological Demography |
| Zdroj: | PLoS ONE, Vol 13, Iss 1, p e0190731 (2018) UPC-Institucional Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas instacron:UPC PLoS ONE |
| Popis: | The prevalence of childhood overweight is a major social and public health issue, and primary assessment should focus on early and middle childhood, because weight gain in these phases constitutes a strong predictor of subsequent negative outcomes. Studies on community samples have shown that growth curves may follow linear or non-linear trajectories from early to middle childhood, and can differ based on sex. Overweight children may exhibit a combination of physiological and psychosocial issues, and several studies have demonstrated an association between overweight and internalizing/externalizing behavior. Nevertheless, there is a dearth of longitudinal studies on depressive and aggressive symptoms in children with high BMI. This study adopted a growth curve modeling over three phases to: (1) describe BMI trajectories in two groups of children aged 2±8 (overweight and normal weight) from a community sample; (2) describe the developmental trajectories of children's aggressive and depressive symptoms from 2 to 8 years of age. Results indicate higher BMI in 2-year-old girls, with males catching up with them by age 8. While overweight females' BMIs were consistently high, males' increased at 5 and 8 years. The mean scores for aggressive symptoms at T1 (2 years of age) were the same in all subjects, but a significant deviation occurred from T1 to T2 in both samples, in divergent directions. With regards to children's depressive symptoms, the two groups had different starting points, with normal weight children scoring lower than overweight youths. Overweight females showed lower depressive scores than overweight males at T1, but they surpassed boys before T2, and showed more maladaptive symptoms at T3. This study solicits professionals working in pediatric settings to consider overweight children's psychopathological risk, and to be aware that even when children's BMI does not increase from 2 to 8 years, their psychopathological symptoms may grow in intensity. This work was supported by the Czech Science Foundation (grant no. THINLINE—GA15- 05696S) to CAA and the Institute for Research on Children, Youth and Family, Faculty of Social Studies, Masaryk University to SJ. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and Revisión por pares |
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