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Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample

BACKGROUND: Little is known about the stability of behavioural and developmental problems as children develop from infants to toddlers in the general population. Therefore, we investigated behavioural profiles at two time points and determined whether behaviours are stable during early development....

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Autores principales: Möricke, Esmé, Lappenschaar, GA Martijn, Swinkels, Sophie HN, Rommelse, Nanda NJ, Buitelaar, Jan K
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Publicado: BioMed Central 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-8-19
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author Möricke, Esmé
Lappenschaar, GA Martijn
Swinkels, Sophie HN
Rommelse, Nanda NJ
Buitelaar, Jan K
author_facet Möricke, Esmé
Lappenschaar, GA Martijn
Swinkels, Sophie HN
Rommelse, Nanda NJ
Buitelaar, Jan K
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description BACKGROUND: Little is known about the stability of behavioural and developmental problems as children develop from infants to toddlers in the general population. Therefore, we investigated behavioural profiles at two time points and determined whether behaviours are stable during early development. METHODS: Parents of 4,237 children completed questionnaires with 62 items about externalizing, internalizing, and social-communicative behaviour when the children were 14–15 and 36–37 months old. Factor mixture modelling identified five homogeneous profiles at both time points: three with relatively normal behaviour or with mild/moderate problems, one with clear communication and interaction problems, and another with pronounced negative and demanding behaviour. RESULTS: More than 85% of infants with normal behaviour or mild problems at 14–15 months were reported to behave relatively typically as toddlers at 36–37 months. A similar percentage of infants with moderate communication problems outgrew their problems by the time they were toddlers. However, infants with severe problems had mild to severe problems as toddlers, and did not show completely normal behaviour. Improvement over time occurred more often in children with negative and demanding behaviour than in children with communication and interaction problems. The former showed less homotypic continuity than the latter. CONCLUSIONS: Negative and demanding behaviour is more often transient and a less specific predictor of problems in toddlerhood than communication and interaction problems.
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spelling pubmed-41100652014-07-25 Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample Möricke, Esmé Lappenschaar, GA Martijn Swinkels, Sophie HN Rommelse, Nanda NJ Buitelaar, Jan K Child Adolesc Psychiatry Ment Health Research BACKGROUND: Little is known about the stability of behavioural and developmental problems as children develop from infants to toddlers in the general population. Therefore, we investigated behavioural profiles at two time points and determined whether behaviours are stable during early development. METHODS: Parents of 4,237 children completed questionnaires with 62 items about externalizing, internalizing, and social-communicative behaviour when the children were 14–15 and 36–37 months old. Factor mixture modelling identified five homogeneous profiles at both time points: three with relatively normal behaviour or with mild/moderate problems, one with clear communication and interaction problems, and another with pronounced negative and demanding behaviour. RESULTS: More than 85% of infants with normal behaviour or mild problems at 14–15 months were reported to behave relatively typically as toddlers at 36–37 months. A similar percentage of infants with moderate communication problems outgrew their problems by the time they were toddlers. However, infants with severe problems had mild to severe problems as toddlers, and did not show completely normal behaviour. Improvement over time occurred more often in children with negative and demanding behaviour than in children with communication and interaction problems. The former showed less homotypic continuity than the latter. CONCLUSIONS: Negative and demanding behaviour is more often transient and a less specific predictor of problems in toddlerhood than communication and interaction problems. BioMed Central 2014-07-07 /pmc/articles/PMC4110065/ /pubmed/25061477 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-8-19 Text en Copyright © 2014 Möricke et al.; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly credited. The Creative Commons Public Domain Dedication waiver (http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) applies to the data made available in this article, unless otherwise stated.
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Möricke, Esmé
Lappenschaar, GA Martijn
Swinkels, Sophie HN
Rommelse, Nanda NJ
Buitelaar, Jan K
Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample
title Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample
title_full Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample
title_fullStr Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample
title_full_unstemmed Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample
title_short Different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large Dutch population sample
title_sort different stability of social-communication problems and negative demanding behaviour from infancy to toddlerhood in a large dutch population sample
topic Research
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4110065/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25061477
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1753-2000-8-19
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