Preadolescent Anxiety: An Epidemiological Study Concerning an Italian Sample of 3,479 Nine-Year-Old Pupils

Nacinovich, Renata; Gadda, S; Maserati, E; Bomba, Monica; Neri, Francesca

doi:10.1007/s10578-011-0247-0

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“…SAFA is a self-reporting questionnaire for investigating the specific components of anxious, depressive and somatic symptoms. Many Italian studies have used these scales to assess different symptomatology associated with disorders like Tourette Syndrome, eating disorders or learning disabilities (Franzoni et al, 2009;Termine et al, 2011;Nacinovich et al, 2012;Pellicciari et al, 2012;Mammarella et al, 2014). The SAFA scales measure: Anxiety (SAFA-A), Depression (SAFA-D), Obsessive-Compulsive symptoms (SAFA-O), Psychogenic eating disorders (SAFA-P), Somatic Symptoms and Hypochondria (SAFA-S) and Phobias (SAFA-F).…”

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Internalizing Symptoms in Developmental Dyslexia: A Comparison Between Primary and Secondary School

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Although the relationship between developmental dyslexia (DD) and the risk of occurrence of internalizing symptomatology has been widely investigated in the extant literature, different findings have been reported. In this study, two experiments with two general purposes are presented. The first study investigates whether the differences in the severity of internalizing symptoms between DD and controls are greater in students attending secondary school than in those attending primary school. Sixtyfive DD and 169 controls attending primary and secondary school took part in the first study. The diagnosis of dyslexia was obtained from standardized reading tests; internalizing symptom severity was assessed with the Self Administrated Psychiatric Scales for Children and Adolescents questionnaire. The results showed that adolescents with dyslexia had an increased level of self-perceived anxiety, depression and somatic symptoms, whereas no significant differences between DD and controls emerged in childhood. In the second study, a cohort of adolescents attending secondary school (DD = 44; controls = 51) was closely analyzed to clarify whether contextual and subjective factors could contribute toward exacerbating the risk of internalizing symptomatology at that age. Internalizing symptom severity was assessed with the Child Behavior Checklist, Youth Self Report questionnaire, decision-making factors were measured with the Melbourne Decision Making Questionnaire, and student's quality of life was gaged using the Clipper test. The results showed that high levels of internalizing symptoms in DD were associated with a low level of self-esteem and the tendency to react to problematic situations with hyperactivation. By contrast, positive relationships with peers were associated with low symptom severity. In conclusion, the intensified internalizing symptoms that could emerge in adolescents in association with the presence of dyslexia are predicted by social protective and risk factors that are associated with symptom severity. Accordingly, the results suggest that remediation programs for dyslexia should include implementing motivation strategies, self-esteem enhancement activities and building peers networks that, starting in childhood, can prevent the appearance of internalizing symptoms.

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Internalizing Symptoms in Developmental Dyslexia: A Comparison Between Primary and Secondary School

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“…Children were administered two self-report questionnaires: the Self-Administered Psychiatric Scales for Children and Adolescents (SAFA; Cianchetti & Fancello, 2001), which assesses different types of anxious symptoms, and the CDI (Kovacs, 1982; Italian validation by Camuffo, Cerutti, Lucarelli, & Mayer, 1988; see also Nacinovich, Gadda, Maserati, Bomba, & Neri, 2012).…”

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Anxiety and Depression in Children With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, Reading Disabilities, or Typical Development

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The main goal of the present study was to shed further light on the psychological characteristics of children with different learning disability profiles aged between 8 and 11 years, attending from third to sixth grade. Specifically, children with nonverbal learning disabilities (NLD), reading disabilities (RD), or a typical development (TD) were tested. In all, 15 children with NLD, 15 with RD, and 15 with TD were administered self-report questionnaires to assess different types of anxiety and depression symptoms. Both NLD and RD children reported experiencing more generalized and social anxiety than TD, the NLD children reported more severe anxiety about school and separation than TD, and the children with RD had worse depressive symptoms than those with NLD or TD.

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“…The psychometric properties of the questionnaire demonstrated adequate internal stability and consistency, with a Cronbach’s alpha > 0.80, and good one week test-retest stability ( p < 0.01). Moreover, SAFA A, SAFA D, and SAFA P showed high convergent validity with other wide-validation questionnaires [ 33 , 34 ].…”

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Body Emotional Investment and Emotion Dysregulation in a Sample of Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria Seeking Sex Reassignment

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Margari²,

Furente³

et al. 2022

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Adolescents with gender dysphoria (GD) often have internalizing symptoms, but the relationship with affective bodily investment and emotion dysregulation is actually under-investigated. The aims of this study are: (1) the comparison of Self-Administrated Psychiatric Scales for Children and Adolescents’ (SAFA), Body Investment Scale’s (BIS), and Difficulties in Emotion Regulation Scale’s (DERS) scores between GD adolescents (n = 30) and cisgenders (n = 30), (2) finding correlations between body investment and emotion regulation in the GD sample, (3) evaluating the link between these dimensions and internalizing symptomatology of GD adolescents. In addition to the significant impairment in emotion regulation and a negative body investment in the GD sample, Spearman’s correlation analyses showed a relationship between worse body protection and impaired emotion regulation, and binary logistic regressions of these dimensions on each SAFA domain evidenced that they may have a role in the increased probability of pathological scores for depression. Our results focused on the role played by emotion regulation and emotional investment in the body in the exacerbating and maintenance of internalizing symptoms, in particular depression, and self-harming behaviors in GD adolescents.

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Preadolescent Anxiety: An Epidemiological Study Concerning an Italian Sample of 3,479 Nine-Year-Old Pupils

Cited by 11 publications

References 19 publications

Internalizing Symptoms in Developmental Dyslexia: A Comparison Between Primary and Secondary School

Internalizing Symptoms in Developmental Dyslexia: A Comparison Between Primary and Secondary School

Anxiety and Depression in Children With Nonverbal Learning Disabilities, Reading Disabilities, or Typical Development

Body Emotional Investment and Emotion Dysregulation in a Sample of Adolescents with Gender Dysphoria Seeking Sex Reassignment

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