Special Issue on Mental Health and Well-Being in Adolescence: Environment and Behavior

Ortuño‐Sierra, Javier; Lucas‐Molina, Beatriz; Inchausti, Félix; Fonseca‐Pedrero, Eduardo

doi:10.3390/ijerph18062975

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“…Adolescence is a transitional stage from childhood to adulthood in which physiological development gradually matures, but psychological development relatively lags behind, causing a serious imbalance [ 4 , 5 ]. In addition, this stage is affected by complex changes such as interpersonal relationships and academic pressure, which can easily lead to various psychological symptoms [ 6 , 7 , 8 ]. Research shows that the proportion of psychological symptoms in children and adolescents is increasing year by year and is much higher than that of other age groups [ 9 ].…”

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Association between Physical Fitness Index and Psychological Symptoms in Chinese Children and Adolescents

Sun

Zhou

et al. 2022

Children

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The aim of this study was to determine the relationship between different physical fitness indices (PFIs) and psychological symptoms and each dimension (emotional symptoms, behavioral symptoms, social adaptation difficulties) of Chinese children and adolescents. Methods: A total of 7199 children and adolescents aged 13–18 in Jiangxi Province, China, were tested for grip strength, standing long jump, sit-ups, sit and reach, repeated straddling, 50 m run, 20 m shuttle run test (20 m SRT) items. The physical fitness indicators were standardized, converted to Z score and added up to obtain the PFI, and the self-assessment of the psychological section of the multidimensional sub-health questionnaire of adolescents (MSQA) to test the psychological symptoms, using the chi-square test to determine the psychological symptoms of different types of children and adolescents and binary logistic regression analysis to determine the association between psychological symptoms and different PFI grades. Results: The higher the PFI of Chinese children and adolescents, the lower the detection rate of psychological symptoms, emotional symptoms and social adaptation difficulties, from 25.0% to 18.4%, 31.3% to 25.7% and 20.1% to 14.4%, respectively. These results were statistically significant (χ2 = 14.073, 9.332, 12.183, p < 0.05). Taking the high-grade PFI as a reference, binary logistic regression analysis was performed. Generally, compared with the high-grade PFI, children and adolescents with a low-grade PFI (OR = 1.476, 95% CI: 1.200–1.814) or medium-grade PFI (OR = 1.195, 95% CI: 1.010–1.413) had a higher risk of psychological symptoms (p < 0.05). Conclusions: The lower the PFI of Chinese children and adolescents, the higher the detection rate of psychological symptoms, showing a negative correlation. In the future, measures should be taken to improve the physical fitness level of children and adolescents in order to reduce the incidence of psychological symptoms and promote the healthy development of children and adolescents.

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Association between Physical Fitness Index and Psychological Symptoms in Chinese Children and Adolescents

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Zhou

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Children

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“…For years, researchers have sought to clarify how adolescent development provides a sensitive window of opportunity for changes to the brain, social behavior, and mental health. Various accounts emphasize pubertal indices such as pubertal timing ( Barendse et al, 2022 , Pfeifer and Allen, 2021b , Ullsperger and Nikolas, 2017 ), whereas others focus on age and the environments associated with being an adolescent ( Costello et al, 2011 , Ortuño-Sierra et al, 2021 , Rothenberg et al, 2023 ). Given that peer evaluation is a particularly salient and shifting experience during puberty, we used a peer evaluation context to probe specificity in how different pubertal indices and age relate to brain connectivity.…”

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Brain network connectivity during peer evaluation in adolescent females: Associations with age, pubertal hormones, timing, and status

Pelletier-Baldelli,

Sheridan,

Rudolph

et al. 2024

Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience

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“…Both the internalizing and externalizing score can range from 0-20 and the total di culty scores is obtained by summing both internalizing and externalizing scores (i.e., summing all scores, except the prosocial behavior). The SDQ has been adapted and validated in multiple countries with its translated version into over 40 languages, both in community and clinical populations, and showed good psychometric properties (Goodman, 2001;Ortuño-Sierra et al, 2021). (Mullick & Goodman, 2001) argued that the Bengali version of SDQ might be useful as a screening tool for psychiatric disorders in community or pediatric clinics in Bangladesh.…”

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Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Grade 5 Bangladeshi Children Sample: A Latent Class Tree (LCT) Approach

Rahman

Akter

2023

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Background Internalizing and externalizing problems are frequent during middle aged children and are often comorbid. The current study aimed to explore subgroup of children at grade 5 in Bangladesh. Methods The well-known Strength and Difficulties Questionnaire was administered to 912 children (48% girls), aged 9–13 years (M = 11.54; SD = 1.12). Latent class analysis (LCA) and Latent Class Tree (LCT) was carried out to make a comparison in identifying risk profiles in children according to their symptoms and explore association between latent classes and gender and having siblings. Results Four latent classes were found under behavioral internalizing and externalizing subscales. We have: “no difficulties” (37.51%), “some difficulties” (25.96%), “challenging” (19.73%) and “very challenging” (16.80%) based on traditional LCA. Whereas for LTA, we have: “no difficulties” (35.45%), “some difficulties” (27.64%), “challenging” (15.26%) and “very challenging” (21.65%). Children belonging to “very challenging” group for externalizing problem showed highest scores for hyperactivity/inattention compared to conduct problems. Whereas children belonging to “very challenging” group for internalizing problem showed highest risk on emotional symptoms. Conclusion This finding emphasizes the necessity of improving population-level knowledge of Bangladeshi child and youth mental health in the middle years, between early childhood and high school, to avoid future comorbidity and more severe symptoms. In addition, LCT ensures that the output of the LC tree model is compatible with the output of the LCA model suggests Latent Class Tree (LCT) as an alternative approach of LCA.

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Special Issue on Mental Health and Well-Being in Adolescence: Environment and Behavior

Abstract: Psychological problems in children and adolescent populations range from 10% to 20% [...]

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Association between Physical Fitness Index and Psychological Symptoms in Chinese Children and Adolescents

Association between Physical Fitness Index and Psychological Symptoms in Chinese Children and Adolescents

Brain network connectivity during peer evaluation in adolescent females: Associations with age, pubertal hormones, timing, and status

Internalizing and Externalizing Problems in Grade 5 Bangladeshi Children Sample: A Latent Class Tree (LCT) Approach

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