Developmental trajectories of internalising behaviour in the prediction of adolescent depressive symptoms

Toumbourou, John W.; Williams, Ian; Letcher, Primrose; Sanson, Ann; Smart, Diana

doi:10.1111/j.1742-9536.2011.00023.x

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“…One difference between genders became evident regarding the number of extracted classes, with four classes found for girls but only three for boys. This is a somewhat unexpected finding since Dekker et al (2007), Sterba et al (2007), and Toumbourou et al (2011) found the same number of classes for girls and boys when studying the developments of depressive or internalizing symptoms, respectively. Two of them even found six classes per gender.…”

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Different Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Predictors and Differences in Girls and Boys

Castelao

Kröner‐Herwig

2012

J Youth Adolescence

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The development of depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence can follow different pathways. This study examined heterogeneity in the development of self-reported depressive symptoms and the predictive influence of mothers’ depressive symptoms, the number of life events, and loss events via growth mixture modeling over a four-year period in a large community sample of German children and adolescents (N = 3,902; mean age 11.39 years; 49.6 % female). This procedure was conducted for the total sample as well as for separate samples of girls and boys. Four different classes of trajectories for the total and the girls’ model were identified, but only three classes for the boys. Girls showed higher intercepts and stronger increases in symptoms over time, whereas boys displayed stronger decreases. In the total model, mothers’ depressive symptoms and the number of life events significantly increased the level of depressive symptoms. In the gender models, only mothers’ depressive symptoms showed significant influence on the level of symptoms in girls and boys, whereas for life events this was only true for boys. In every model, the significant predictors discriminated at least between some classes. Loss events showed no significant influence in any model. In sum, there are meaningful differences in the development of depressive symptoms in girls and boys. These results have several implications for prevention and future research.

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confidence: 78%

Different Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Predictors and Differences in Girls and Boys

Castelao

Kröner‐Herwig

2012

J Youth Adolescence

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“…For example, parent psychopathology confounds the measurement of child psychopathology, as it affects parent perceptions of child behaviour, and confers both genetic and environmental risk for the development of psychopathology (e.g., De los Reyes & Kazdin, 2005; Ordway, 2011). However, existing research suggests that parent reports of behaviour can identify coherent temperament domains that originate early in life to influence adjustment (Toumbourou, Williams, Letcher, Sanson, & Smart, 2011), and have validity in long term prediction (Rapee, 2014; Schwartz et al, 1996). Regardless, future studies should incorporate multiple informants, and observational and physiological measures to capture the variables of interest with greater reliability and validity.…”

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Unique Associations between Childhood Temperament Characteristics and Subsequent Psychopathology Symptom Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adolescence

Forbes

Rapee

Camberis

et al. 2016

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Existing research suggests that temperamental traits that emerge early in childhood may have utility for early detection and intervention for common mental disorders. The present study examined the unique relationships between the temperament characteristics of reactivity, approach-sociability, and persistence in early childhood and subsequent symptom trajectories of psychopathology (depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder; ADHD) from childhood to early adolescence. Data were from the first five waves of the older cohort from the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (n = 4983; 51.2% male), which spanned ages 4–5 to 12–13. Multivariate ordinal and logistic regressions examined whether parent-reported child temperament characteristics at age 4–5 predicted the study child’s subsequent symptom trajectories for each domain of psychopathology (derived using latent class growth analyses), after controlling for other presenting symptoms. Temperament characteristics differentially predicted the symptom trajectories for depression, anxiety, conduct disorder, and ADHD: Higher levels of reactivity uniquely predicted higher symptom trajectories for all 4 domains; higher levels of approach-sociability predicted higher trajectories of conduct disorder and ADHD, but lower trajectories of anxiety; and higher levels of persistence were related to lower trajectories of conduct disorder and ADHD. These findings suggest that temperament is an early identifiable risk factor for the development of psychopathology, and that identification and timely interventions for children with highly reactive temperaments in particular could prevent later mental health problems.

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“…Past studies on the link between divergent evaluations of SC and depressive symptoms have mainly concentrated on samples from early to middle childhood (Brendgen et al., , ; Hughes et al., ; McGrath & Repetti, ) and late adolescence to young adulthood (Qian et al., ). However, early adolescence is a developmental stage of special importance to be considered in understanding the etiology of adolescent depressive symptoms (Toumbourou et al., ) because it often coincides with a simultaneous ecological transition (Bronfenbrenner, ), for instance, moving to a new school context as kids move from primary to lower secondary school. This transition poses major challenges to early adolescents as it involves a reorganization of their peer networks and the need to create new contacts, establish new relationships and find their own reference group (Junttila, ).…”

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“…In other words, while variable‐oriented methods assume that the population is homogeneous with respect to associations among variables, person oriented‐approach assumes that the population is heterogeneous with respect to associations among variables (Laursen & Hoff, ). Person‐oriented methods are well suited for examining group or individual differences and associations among chosen variables and have been recommended by scholars in order to explore heterogeneity within the population (Toumbourou et al., ).…”

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“…Third, the findings present the profiles of adolescents with higher scores of depressive symptoms and thus, suggest that different groups are in need of different intervention approach. Timely intervention is particularly important during the developmental phase of early adolescence (Toumbourou et al., ) because as Buttigieg et al. () highlighted, puberty may be a challenge in itself and thus, may increase the experience of depressive feelings.…”

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Perceptual Discrepancy Profiles of Social Competence and Their Interrelations With Depressive Symptoms Among Early Adolescents

Topalli

Junttila

Acquah

et al. 2019

J of Research on Adolesc

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We examined the perceptual discrepancy profiles between self‐ and peers, and self‐ and teacher evaluations of adolescents’ social competence (SC) and the interrelations of these profiles with self‐reported depressive symptoms. The participants were 390 Finnish lower secondary school pupils. Latent profile analysis revealed five classes of discrepancy profiles; adolescents with congruent perceptions, quite congruent perceptions, and positively discrepant perceptions of SC reported lower scores of depressive symptoms, whereas those with negatively and extremely positively discrepant perceptions of SC reported the highest scores of depressive symptoms. The larger the discrepancy between self‐ and others’ evaluations of SC were, the more depressive symptoms were reported. The results indicate that interventions designed to mitigate depression need to be tailored to individual needs.

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Developmental trajectories of internalising behaviour in the prediction of adolescent depressive symptoms

Cited by 50 publications

References 28 publications

Different Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Predictors and Differences in Girls and Boys

Different Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents: Predictors and Differences in Girls and Boys

Unique Associations between Childhood Temperament Characteristics and Subsequent Psychopathology Symptom Trajectories from Childhood to Early Adolescence

Perceptual Discrepancy Profiles of Social Competence and Their Interrelations With Depressive Symptoms Among Early Adolescents

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