Fifteen, female and stressed: changing patterns of psychological distress over time

West, Patrick; Sweeting, Helen

doi:10.1111/1469-7610.00130

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“…Also at school, adolescents experience an increased pressure with increasing age, together with the strengthening of the expectation to perform the socially required sexual role. It is here important to observe, with West and Sweeting [25], that school performance, as well as other sources of stress increasing in this period of life, impact much more on girls' health than on boys'.…”

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Girls growing through adolescence have a higher risk of poor health

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Introduction: Self rated health, in adult population, is strongly associated with mortality and life expectancy. In younger people this association is less evident, but it may anticipate a similar risk in adult life. Our research, based on the HBSC (Health Behaviour in School-Aged Children) International collaboration, contributes to deepen the knowledge in this field by monitoring adolescents' health through a multinational survey involving 29 European countries, plus North America (Canada and USA) and Israel. Methods: Following an established methodology, the HBSC survey has elaborated a questionnaire on health and health behaviour, filled in by a representative national sample of 11-, 13-and 15-year-old boys and girls. The sample is constituted of more than 160,000 subjects interviewed during the 2001/2002 survey. Reported symptoms and self-rated health have been analysed by sex and age and through the different countries. Results: Girls resulted to have a poorer perception of their health, with respect to males, at all ages and in all countries (Overall OR = 1.70, 95% CI: 1.66-1.76). Age increases this risk both for males and females, with an average increase of 32% (95% CI: 29-34%) per year in the age-range 11-15. The situation is similar for reported symptoms, with an overall OR of 1.81 (95% CI: 1.77-1.85) for females of reporting three or more symptoms at least once a week; also this risk increases of 26% (95% CI: 24-27%) per year during the pre-adolescence phase. In both cases it could be shown a significant interaction effect between age and gender: OR = 1.19 (CI: 1.15-1.23) for perceived health and OR = 1.26 (CI: 1.23-1.29) for reported symptoms in females with respect to males. Conclusions: Even if adolescence is described as the healthiest period of life, a consistent minority of young people perceive and report a poor health and a high number of symptoms. Females are constantly in a worse position than males and older age groups are worse than younger ones.

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“…In fact we know [26] that the quality of the relationship with the father decreases more for girls than for boys. The greater importance given to school performance for girls and a greater contrast between familial and mass media values are also suggested as a possible explanation for this difference [25].…”

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“…Secular trends in depressive symptoms 9 Finally, several studies have examined whether time trends in psychological problems vary according to socio-demographic factors. Some studies indicate gender differences in time trends of depressive symptoms (Sigfusdottir et al, 2008;West & Sweeting, 2003), while others do not (Collishaw, Maughan, Goodman, & Pickles, 2004). Moreover, no variations in time trends were found in relation to families' socio-economic status or family structure (Collishaw et al, 2010;Maughan et al, 2008), whereas one study did find time trends to vary according to number of children in the family (Maughan et al, 2008).…”

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“…Moreover, factors such as potentially higher academic pressure at school (West & Sweeting, 2003) and increased exposure to the Internet may be of importance to explain time trends in depressive symptoms.…”

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Secular Trends in Depressive Symptoms Among Norwegian Adolescents from 1992 to 2010

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Wichstrøm

2013

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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“…With regard to general psychopathology, several studies have revealed that adolescent girls report more symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress than do boys [43][44][45][46]. Externalizing problems are widely considered more prevalent in boys, and, respectively, internalizing ones in girls [43,[47][48][49][50].…”

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The Relationship between Self-rated Psychopathic Traits and Psychopathology in a Sample of Finnish Community Youth: Exploration of Gender Differences

Oshukova¹,

Kaltiala-Heino

Miettunen

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J Child Adolesc Behav

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Background: Associations between psychopathic traits and other forms of psychopathology among youth in the community, as well as gender differences in these associations have been scarcely studied yet. The present study aimed to explore this relationship in a sample of Finnish mid-adolescent girls and boys. Methods:The sample comprised 370 secondary school ninth-graders with the mean age of 15.1 years (SD 0.28). The Youth Psychopathic traits Inventory (YPI) and the Youth Self Report (YSR) served as self-assessments.Results: Boys showed significantly higher traits of psychopathy, but girls scored significantly higher on the Total Problems as well as on the majority of the syndrome scales on the YSR. In both genders, psychopathic traits correlated highly with rule-breaking and aggressive behavior, moderately with attention and thought complaints, and modestly with depression, anxiety, withdrawal and social problems. The correlations between psychopathic traits and somatic problems were moderate in boys, but modest in girls. The correlations showed only a few statistically significant gender differences: the correlation between the Affective dimension of the YPI and the rule-breaking behavior syndrome scale of the YSR, as well as the correlation between the Interpersonal dimension of the YPI and somatic problems were stronger in boys than in girls. Conclusions:Even though boys show higher traits of psychopathy and girls exhibit more general psychopathology, the correlations between psychopathic traits and other forms of psychopathology closely resemble each other. In both genders, psychopathic traits correlate positively with both externalizing and internalizing problems. The callous-unemotional traits correlate more strongly with rule-breaking behavior in boys than in girls. Screening for psychopathic traits among adolescents with psychosocial adjustment problems seems relevant.

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Fifteen, female and stressed: changing patterns of psychological distress over time

Cited by 204 publications

References 27 publications

Girls growing through adolescence have a higher risk of poor health

Girls growing through adolescence have a higher risk of poor health

Secular Trends in Depressive Symptoms Among Norwegian Adolescents from 1992 to 2010

The Relationship between Self-rated Psychopathic Traits and Psychopathology in a Sample of Finnish Community Youth: Exploration of Gender Differences

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