The latent structure of child depression: a taxometric analysis

Richey, J. Anthony; Schmidt, Norman B.; Lonigan, Christopher J.; Phillips, Beth M.; Catanzaro, Salvatore J.; Laurent, Jeff; Gerhardstein, Rebecca; Kotov, Roman

doi:10.1111/j.1469-7610.2009.02085.x

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“…The mean CDI score was low ( M = 7.11, SD = 5.06) and consistent with means from community samples of children (e.g., Richey et al, 2009). Although the CDI is not usually used with children younger than 8 years of age, there is evidence supporting its validity in children as young as 5 (Ialongo, Edelsohn, & Kellam, 2001).…”

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The serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region and brain-derived neurotrophic factor valine to methionine at position 66 polymorphisms and maternal history of depression: Associations with cognitive vulnerability to depression in childhood

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Preliminary work indicates that cognitive vulnerability to depression may be associated with variants of the serotonin transporter promoter polymorphism (5-HTTLPR) and the valine to methionine at position 66 (val66met) polymorphism of the brain-derived neurotrophic factor (BDNF) gene; however, existing reports come from small samples. The present study sought to replicate and extend this research in a sample of 375 community-dwelling children and their parents. Following a negative mood induction, children completed a self-referent encoding task tapping memory for positive and negative self-descriptive traits. Consistent with previous work, we found that children with at least one short variant of the 5-HTTLPR had enhanced memory for negative self-descriptive traits. The BDNF val66met polymorphism had no main effect but was moderated by maternal depression, such that children with a BDNF methionine allele had a heightened memory for negative self-descriptive traits when mothers had experienced depression during children's lifetimes; in contrast, children with a methionine allele had low recall of negative traits when mothers had no depression history. The findings provide further support for the notion that the 5-HTTLPR is associated with cognitive markers of depression vulnerability and that the BDNF methionine allele moderates children's sensitivity to contextual factors.

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The serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region and brain-derived neurotrophic factor valine to methionine at position 66 polymorphisms and maternal history of depression: Associations with cognitive vulnerability to depression in childhood

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“…This is a potentially useful finding for future biological challenge studies investigating the nature of anxiety sensitivity, and highlights the importance of reporting empirically derived scales allowing easy derivation of taxa (e.g. Zvolensky et al, 2007, Richey et al, 2009 . Such methods allow the derivation (or more accurately, the indexing) of taxa without the additional computational burden of conducting actual taxometric analyses.…”

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Temporal and structural dynamics of anxiety sensitivity in predicting fearful responding to a 35% CO2 challenge

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Journal of Anxiety Disorders

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“…Finally, a third concern relates to construct measurement. Specifically, several studies featured self-report measures of depression (e.g., Richey et al, 2009; Whisman & Pinto, 1997). Such measures may lead to spurious taxonic findings (Beauchaine & Waters 2003; Haslam et al 2012).…”

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Taxometric evidence of a dimensional latent structure for depression in an epidemiological sample of children and adolescents

Liu

2016

Psychol. Med.

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Background A basic phenomenological question of much theoretical and empirical interest is whether the latent structure of depression is dimensional or categorical in nature. Prior taxometric studies of youth depression have yielded mixed findings. In a step towards resolving these contradictory findings, the current taxometric investigation is the first to utilize a recently developed objective index, the comparison curve fit index (CCFI), to evaluate the latent structure of major depression in an epidemiological sample of children and adolescents. Methods Data were derived from Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain. Participants were administered a structured diagnostic interview to assess for current depression. Parents (n = 683) were interviewed for children ages 5–16, and child interviews (n = 605) were conducted for those ages 11–16. Results MAMBAC (mean above minus below a cut), MAXEIG (maximum eigenvalue), and L-Mode (latent mode) analyses provided convergent support for a dimensional latent structure. Conclusions The current findings suggest that depression in youth is more accurately conceptualized as a continuous syndrome rather than a discrete diagnostic entity.

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The latent structure of child depression: a taxometric analysis

Abstract: Multiple nonredundant procedures and samples were all consistently indicative of taxonicity in child depression.

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The serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region and brain-derived neurotrophic factor valine to methionine at position 66 polymorphisms and maternal history of depression: Associations with cognitive vulnerability to depression in childhood

The serotonin transporter linked polymorphic region and brain-derived neurotrophic factor valine to methionine at position 66 polymorphisms and maternal history of depression: Associations with cognitive vulnerability to depression in childhood

Temporal and structural dynamics of anxiety sensitivity in predicting fearful responding to a 35% CO2 challenge

Taxometric evidence of a dimensional latent structure for depression in an epidemiological sample of children and adolescents

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