Stability and Change of Psychopathology Symptoms Throughout Childhood and Adolescence

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Assessing stability and change of children’s psychopathology symptoms can help elucidate whether specific behaviors are transient developmental variations or indicate persistent psychopathology. This study included 6930 children across early childhood (T1), late childhood (T2) and early adolescence (T3), from the general population. Latent profile analysis identified psychopathology subgroups and latent transition analysis quantified the probability that children remained within, or transitioned across psychopathology subgroups. We identified four psychopathology subgroups; no problems (T1: 85.9%, T2: 79.0%, T3: 78.0%), internalizing (T1: 5.1%, T2: 9.2%, T3: 9.0%), externalizing (T1: 7.3%, T2: 8.3%, T3: 10.2%) and the dysregulation profile (DP) (T1: 1.7%, T2: 3.5%, T3: 2.8%). From T1 to T2, 44.7% of the children remained in the DP. Between T2 and T3, 33.6% remained in the DP; however, 91.4% were classified in one of the psychopathology subgroups. Our findings suggest that for many children, internalizing or externalizing symptoms encompass a transient phase within development. Contrary, the DP resembles a severe at-risk state in which the predictive value for being in one of the psychopathology subgroups increases over time.

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Blok, E., de Mol, C. L., van der Ende, J., Hillegers, M. H. J., Althoff, R. R., Shaw, P., & White, T. (2022). Stability and Change of Psychopathology Symptoms Throughout Childhood and Adolescence. Child Psychiatry and Human Development, 53(6), 1330–1339. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-021-01212-8

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