At-risk early adolescents profiles in the community: A cluster analysis using the strengths and difficulties questionnaire

Muratori, Pietro; Paciello, Marinella; Castro, Emanuela; Levantini, Valentina; Masi, Gabriele; Milone, Annarita; Senese, Vincenzo Paolo; Pisano, Simone; Catone, Gennaro

doi:10.1016/j.psychres.2021.114209

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“…At the same time, the rest of the percentages have been presented to know the situation of the students in the remaining dimensions, which helps to elucidate the degree of emotional adjustment of Italian adolescents, which will help us to understand how they are in terms of their emotional, behavioral, hyperactivity, peer problems, and prosociality levels. This information is in line with emotional problems previously found in Italian teenagers [15]. When explaining this situation, it is necessary to include contextual and personal variables [4,18].…”

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confidence: 71%

“…The study of the emotional aspect in young people shows that 7.7% of teenagers are suspected of having psychological problems [14]. This is in line with the findings of a study of Italian pre-adolescents in which early indicators of problems in emotional and behavioral adjustment were found; in particular, predominantly externalizing symptoms were found in 6.5% and internalizing symptoms in 19% [15]. It was also found that approximately 1 in 5 students had depressive symptoms during the COVID-19 pandemic [16].…”

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Emotional Strengths and Difficulties in Italian Adolescents: Analysis of Adaptation through the SDQ

Corvasce¹,

Ramón

Méndez

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An adolescent’s knowledge of him/herself (positive aspects and weaknesses) is shaped by interactions with external and internal factors, including the family context and the educational environment. The assessment of this knowledge serves to construct the concept of self-esteem. The main objective of the present study was to examine the prevalence of self-reported emotional and behavioral symptoms in a representative sample of Italian adolescents and their relationship with gender and age, using Goodman’s Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ). A total of 440 adolescents (49.8% female) aged 15–18 years from the southern Italy region participated. The results show the prevalence of emotional and behavioral symptoms in the analyzed sample. Gender differences were also found in the variables under study. In conclusion, the SDQ test is offered as an agile, simplified, and effective tool, to be proposed to all formative agents who are concerned with the interest and care not only of young people, but also of the future of socio-political realities.

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Emotional Strengths and Difficulties in Italian Adolescents: Analysis of Adaptation through the SDQ

Corvasce¹,

Ramón

Méndez

et al. 2022

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“…Early screening offers an important opportunity to rapidly detect and treat behavioural and emotional symptoms. Therefore, it is not surprising that, over the past two decades, several studies [21][22][23][24][25] have attempted to identify the early neuropsychiatric symptoms in children and adolescents via psychological questionnaires.…”

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confidence: 99%

“…With good psychometric properties [23,27,28], the SDQ is a brief flexible questionnaire used for the early screening and identification of pathognomonic symptoms or behavioural and emotional symptoms associated with neuropsychiatric disorders, which require further evaluation with a structured neuropsychiatric examination. The SDQ has been employed in several studies to screen for neuropsychiatric disorders, including ADHD [29,30] and ASD [31], or to identify emotional and behavioural problems in children and adolescents with neurodevelopmental disorders [21,22,25,32], such as SLD [33] and ID [34].…”

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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a Valuable Screening Tool for Identifying Core Symptoms and Behavioural and Emotional Problems in Children with Neuropsychiatric Disorders

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Lazzaro

Demaria

et al. 2022

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The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) is a worldwide questionnaire used for the early identification of behavioural/emotional symptoms in children and adolescents with neuropsychiatric disorders. Although its prognostic power has been studied, it has not yet been tested whether SDQ: (i) can identify pathognomonic symptoms across a variety of neurodevelopmental and neuropsychiatric disorders, (ii) can capture emotional and behavioural problems associated with the main diagnosis, as well as shared transdiagnostic dimensions, and (iii) can detect changes in symptomatology with age. The present study evaluated nearly 1000 children and adolescents overall with Global Developmental Delay (GDD), Intellectual Disability (ID), Language Disorder (LD), Specific Learning Disorder (SLD), Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), Attention Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD), Mood Disorder (MD), Anxiety Disorder (AD), and Eating Disorders (ED). We found that SDQ: (i) can identify the core symptoms in children with ASD, ADHD, MD, and AD via specific subscales; (ii) can capture the associated emotional and behavioural symptoms in children with LD, GDD, ID, SLD, and ED; and (iii) can detect changes in the symptomatology, especially for GDD, LD, ASD, ADHD, and AD. SDQ is also able to recognise the transdiagnostic dimensions across disorders. Our results underscore the potential of SDQ to specifically differentiate and identify behavioural/emotional profiles associated with clinical diagnosis.

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“…A considerable number of early adolescents present a complex picture of co-occurring emotional, behavioral, and cognitive dysregulation, causing significant adjustment problems [ 1 , 2 , 3 ]. Usually, the identification of emotional dysregulation in youths is achieved thanks to the assessment of a Dysregulation Profile (DP), which is developed to measure psychopathological symptoms sustained by deficits in self-regulation of emotions and behaviors.…”

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Psychometric Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire-Dysregulation Profile in Italian Early Adolescents

Levantini

Cei

Pirri³

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Emotional dysregulation is of great cause for concern because it is associated with severe outcomes. Currently, the identification of youths with signs of emotional and behavioral dysregulation is obtained through the assessment of a Dysregulation Profile (DP), including the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire-DP (SDQ-DP). Despite its increasingly frequent use in research, studies exploring the SDQ-DP properties are still limited, and no study with Italian samples is currently available. The current study aimed to explore the psychometric properties of the SDQ-DP parent-report and its association with difficulties in the school context in a sample of 332 Italian early adolescents. Results showed that the SDQ-DP parent-report is a single-factor measure with good internal consistency. Also, in both males and females, the SDQ-DP parent-report was associated with higher teacher-reported Internalizing (e.g., anxious symptoms) and Externalizing Problems (e.g., hyperactivity, conduct problems) and lower Prosocial Behavior. This study added further evidence about the utility of the SDQ-DP in the assessment, prevention, and treatment of emotional dysregulation.

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At-risk early adolescents profiles in the community: A cluster analysis using the strengths and difficulties questionnaire

Cited by 10 publications

References 54 publications

Emotional Strengths and Difficulties in Italian Adolescents: Analysis of Adaptation through the SDQ

Emotional Strengths and Difficulties in Italian Adolescents: Analysis of Adaptation through the SDQ

The Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire as a Valuable Screening Tool for Identifying Core Symptoms and Behavioural and Emotional Problems in Children with Neuropsychiatric Disorders

Psychometric Properties of the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire-Dysregulation Profile in Italian Early Adolescents

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