TY - JOUR
T1 - Within-person relations between domains of socio-emotional development during childhood and adolescence
AU - Speyer, Lydia Gabriela
AU - Hall, Hildigunnur Anna
AU - Ushakova, Anastasia
AU - Luciano, Michelle
AU - Auyeung, Bonnie
AU - Murray, Aja Louise
N1 - Funding Information:
The UK Medical Research Council and Wellcome (Grant ref: 217065/Z/19/Z) and the University of Bristol provide core support for ALSPAC. This publication is the work of the authors and Dr Lydia Gabriela Speyer, Dr Hildigunnur Anna Hall, Dr Anastasia Ushakova, Dr Michelle Luciano, Dr Bonnie Auyeung and Dr Aja Louise Murray will serve as guarantors for the contents of this paper. A comprehensive list of grants funding (PDF, 459 KB) is available on the ALSPAC website. LGS was funded by the University of Edinburgh through a Principal’s Careers Development Scholarship. HAH was funded by the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/R500938/1). BA was supported by the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under the Marie Skłodowska-Curie grant agreement No.813546, the Baily Thomas Charitable Fund TRUST/VC/AC/SG/469207686, and the UK Economic and Social Research Council (ES/N018877/1) during the course of this work. AU, ML and ALM have no funding to declare for this project. The study sponsors had no part in the design, data analysis and interpretation of this study, in the writing of the manuscript or in the decision to submit the paper for publication, and the authors’ work was independent of their funders.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022, The Author(s).
PY - 2022/6/7
Y1 - 2022/6/7
N2 - Adolescence is a critical period in the development of mental health with nearly 1 in 5 adolescents suffering from mental health problems and more than 40 percent of these experiencing at least one co-occurring mental health disorder. This study investigates whether there are differences in the relations between key dimensions of child and adolescent mental health in adolescence compared to childhood. Mental health and related socio-emotional traits were measured longitudinally at ages 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, and 16 in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 11279) using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires. Graphical Vector Autoregression models were used to analyse the temporal within-person relations between conduct problems, emotional problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer problems and prosociality across childhood (ages 4 to 9) and adolescence (11 to 16). Results suggest that adolescence is characterised by an increase in the number and strength of temporal relations between socio-emotional difficulties. In particular, in adolescence there were bidirectional connections between peer problems and emotional problems, between conduct problems and hyperactivity/inattention and between prosociality and conduct problems as well as hyperactivity/inattention. In childhood, conduct problems and prosociality were reciprocally related. Results also suggested peer problems as a potential mediating factor between conduct and emotional problems in childhood. Overall, this study suggests that different domains of socio-emotional development influence each other over development. Adolescence is characterised by an increase in temporal connections, which may be one factor underlying the increased vulnerability to the onset of mental health problems during that period.
AB - Adolescence is a critical period in the development of mental health with nearly 1 in 5 adolescents suffering from mental health problems and more than 40 percent of these experiencing at least one co-occurring mental health disorder. This study investigates whether there are differences in the relations between key dimensions of child and adolescent mental health in adolescence compared to childhood. Mental health and related socio-emotional traits were measured longitudinally at ages 4, 7, 8, 9, 11, 13, and 16 in the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (N = 11279) using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaires. Graphical Vector Autoregression models were used to analyse the temporal within-person relations between conduct problems, emotional problems, hyperactivity/inattention, peer problems and prosociality across childhood (ages 4 to 9) and adolescence (11 to 16). Results suggest that adolescence is characterised by an increase in the number and strength of temporal relations between socio-emotional difficulties. In particular, in adolescence there were bidirectional connections between peer problems and emotional problems, between conduct problems and hyperactivity/inattention and between prosociality and conduct problems as well as hyperactivity/inattention. In childhood, conduct problems and prosociality were reciprocally related. Results also suggested peer problems as a potential mediating factor between conduct and emotional problems in childhood. Overall, this study suggests that different domains of socio-emotional development influence each other over development. Adolescence is characterised by an increase in temporal connections, which may be one factor underlying the increased vulnerability to the onset of mental health problems during that period.
KW - developmental psychopathology
KW - adolescence
KW - socio-emotional strengths and difficulties
KW - graphical vector autoregression
KW - ALSPAC
U2 - 10.1007/s10802-022-00933-1
DO - 10.1007/s10802-022-00933-1
M3 - Article
SN - 2730-7166
JO - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
JF - Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
ER -