Understanding Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Girls

Bell, Debora J.; Foster, Sharon L.; Mash, Eric J.

doi:10.1007/0-306-48674-1_1

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“…However, there is a great deal of literature concerning the varying profile of autism as expressed by gender differences and the vast majority of studies have been conducted with predominantly male samples (Bell et al 2005). Furthermore, the available findings on the differences in clinical profiles between males and females with ASD have J Autism Dev Disord (2015) 45:2046-2055 2049 Table 1 ADOS severity score, GMDS-ER and VABS-SF at T0 and T1 Autism Dev Disord (2015) 45:2046-20552051 shown contrasting results (Carter et al 2007;Banach et al 2009;Andersson et al 2013;Van Wijngaarden-Cremers et al 2013;Hofvander et al 2009;Lugnegard et al 2011;Matson and Nebel-Schwalm 2007;Park et al 2012;Simonoff et al 2008;Lai et al 2011;Mayes and Calhoun 2011;Zwaigenbaum et al 2012;Mandy et al 2012;Szatmari et al 2012;Donna et al 2013).…”

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Longitudinal comparison between male and female preschool children with autism spectrum disorder

Postorino

Fatta

Peppo

et al. 2015

J Autism Dev Disord

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Epidemiological studies have highlighted a strong male bias in autism spectrum disorder (ASD), however few studies have examined gender differences in autism symptoms, and available findings are inconsistent. The aim of the present study is to investigate the longitudinal gender differences in developmental profiles of 30 female and 30 male age-matched preschool children with ASD. All the children underwent a comprehensive evaluation at T0 and at T1. Our results have shown no significant interaction between time and gender for predicting autism symptoms, developmental quotient, parental stress, children's adaptive skills and behavior problems. Shedding light on the developmental trajectories in ASD could help clinicians to recognize children with ASD at an earlier age and contribute to the development of appropriate treatments.

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Longitudinal comparison between male and female preschool children with autism spectrum disorder

Postorino

Fatta

Peppo

et al. 2015

J Autism Dev Disord

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“…A comprehensive discussion of the various theoretical proposals purported to account for age and sex patterns during early to middle adolescence in different aspects of the development of psychopathology is beyond the scope of this paper (see Bell et al 2005;Hankin et al 2008;Rutter et al 2003;Zahn-Waxler et al 2006 for some recent examples). It is important to note that the pattern of findings and the theoretical explanations offered to account for the manifestation of symptoms by sex and age are influenced heavily by the developmental period and age range studied.…”

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Cognitive Vulnerability–Stress Model of Depression During Adolescence: Investigating Depressive Symptom Specificity in a Multi-Wave Prospective Study

Hankin

2008

J Abnorm Child Psychol

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Depression commonly co-occurs with anxiety and externalizing problems. Etiological factors from a central cognitive theory of depression, the Hopelessness Theory (Abramson et al. Psychological Review, 96, 358-372, 1989), were examined to evaluate whether a negative inferential style about cause, consequence, and self interacted with stressors over time to predict prospective elevations in depressive symptoms specifically compared with typically co-occurring symptoms. Negative inferential style was assessed at baseline in a sample of early and middle adolescents (N=350, sixth to tenth graders). Measures of general depressive, anhedonic depressive, anxious arousal, general internalizing, and externalizing symptoms and occurrence of stressors were assessed at four time points over a 5-month period. Results using hierarchical linear modeling show that a negative inferential style interacted with negative events to predict prospective symptoms of general and anhedonic depression specifically but not anxious arousal, general internalizing or externalizing symptoms. Negative events predicted prospective elevations of symptoms of anxious arousal, internalizing, and externalizing problems.

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“…In the current study, we tested whether interactions among marital conflict, RSA, and SCL differentially predict internalizing symptoms depending on child sex (see Bell, Foster, & Mash, 2005). Girls face higher risk for anxiety and depression throughout adolescence (see Weissman et al, 1996; Zahn-Waxler et al, 2005), but evidence for sex differences during childhood is sparse (Cole et al, 2002; Crawford, Cohen, Midlarsky, & Brook, 2001; Graber, 2004; Zahn-Waxler et al, 2005).…”

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Marital conflict and growth in children's internalizing symptoms: The role of autonomic nervous system activity.

El‐Sheikh¹,

Keiley²,

Erath³

et al. 2013

Developmental Psychology

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We assessed trajectories of children's internalizing symptoms, indexed through anxiety and depression, with a focus on the role of interactions between interparental marital conflict, children's sympathetic nervous system activity indexed by skin conductance level (SCL), and parasympathetic nervous system activity indexed by respiratory sinus arrhythmia (RSA) as predictors of growth. Children participated in 3 waves of data collection with a 1-year lag between each wave. At T1, 128 girls and 123 boys participated (M age = 8.23 years; SD = 0.73). The most important findings reveal that girls with either low RSA in conjunction with low SCL (i.e., coinhibition) at baseline or with increasing RSA and decreasing SCL in response to a challenging task (i.e., reciprocal parasympathetic activation) are susceptible to high or escalating anxiety and depression symptoms, particularly in the context of marital conflict. Findings support the importance of concurrent examinations of environmental risk factors and physiological activity for better prediction of the development of anxiety and depression symptoms.

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Understanding Behavioral and Emotional Problems in Girls

Cited by 22 publications

References 42 publications

Longitudinal comparison between male and female preschool children with autism spectrum disorder

Longitudinal comparison between male and female preschool children with autism spectrum disorder

Cognitive Vulnerability–Stress Model of Depression During Adolescence: Investigating Depressive Symptom Specificity in a Multi-Wave Prospective Study

Marital conflict and growth in children's internalizing symptoms: The role of autonomic nervous system activity.

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