Cargando…
The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach
Research into co-occurrent internalizing and externalizing problems during childhood is flourishing. In particular, investigation on the association between anxiety and externalizing problems has yielded mixed findings, focused mainly on the issue of which problem might precede the other, and what r...
Autores principales: | , , , , |
---|---|
Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
Publicado: |
Springer US
2021
|
Materias: | |
Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940780/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34499292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00865-2 |
_version_ | 1784672972143853568 |
---|---|
author | Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Villar, Paula Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz Romero, Estrella Deater-Deckard, Kirby |
author_facet | Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Villar, Paula Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz Romero, Estrella Deater-Deckard, Kirby |
author_sort | Isdahl-Troye, Aimé |
collection | PubMed |
description | Research into co-occurrent internalizing and externalizing problems during childhood is flourishing. In particular, investigation on the association between anxiety and externalizing problems has yielded mixed findings, focused mainly on the issue of which problem might precede the other, and what role anxiety plays with respect to externalizing problems. Relatively little attention has been paid to the developmental patterns of these behaviors from early childhood, despite the potential of such knowledge to fully delineate etiological models of co-occurrence. This study aimed to examine the longitudinal association of anxiety and externalizing problems in a community sample of preschoolers (ELISA Project; N = 2,341; 48.2% girls), by identifying empirically derived profiles and then describing their change and stability through the use of Latent Transition Analysis. Gender differences were explored. Four different profiles were identified: “typically developing”, “mainly anxious”, “modestly externalizing” and “co-occurrent”. Membership in these profile groups showed high stability over a two-year period. However, children in the “co-occurrent” profile group were the most likely to show changes, predominantly towards “modestly externalizing”. Furthermore, a significant gender difference for transitions towards the “co-occurrent” profile group was found, with girls showing less likelihood of being assigned to such profile. These findings show that it is possible to identify an early persistent course of co-occurrent anxiety and externalizing problems, as well as observe changes in co-occurrence towards a simpler externalizing behavioral expression. Further research should explore predictors of group membership and changes in membership, that are malleable and therefore open to preventative intervention. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10802-021-00865-2. |
format | Online Article Text |
id | pubmed-8940780 |
institution | National Center for Biotechnology Information |
language | English |
publishDate | 2021 |
publisher | Springer US |
record_format | MEDLINE/PubMed |
spelling | pubmed-89407802022-04-07 The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Villar, Paula Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz Romero, Estrella Deater-Deckard, Kirby Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol Article Research into co-occurrent internalizing and externalizing problems during childhood is flourishing. In particular, investigation on the association between anxiety and externalizing problems has yielded mixed findings, focused mainly on the issue of which problem might precede the other, and what role anxiety plays with respect to externalizing problems. Relatively little attention has been paid to the developmental patterns of these behaviors from early childhood, despite the potential of such knowledge to fully delineate etiological models of co-occurrence. This study aimed to examine the longitudinal association of anxiety and externalizing problems in a community sample of preschoolers (ELISA Project; N = 2,341; 48.2% girls), by identifying empirically derived profiles and then describing their change and stability through the use of Latent Transition Analysis. Gender differences were explored. Four different profiles were identified: “typically developing”, “mainly anxious”, “modestly externalizing” and “co-occurrent”. Membership in these profile groups showed high stability over a two-year period. However, children in the “co-occurrent” profile group were the most likely to show changes, predominantly towards “modestly externalizing”. Furthermore, a significant gender difference for transitions towards the “co-occurrent” profile group was found, with girls showing less likelihood of being assigned to such profile. These findings show that it is possible to identify an early persistent course of co-occurrent anxiety and externalizing problems, as well as observe changes in co-occurrence towards a simpler externalizing behavioral expression. Further research should explore predictors of group membership and changes in membership, that are malleable and therefore open to preventative intervention. SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: The online version contains supplementary material available at 10.1007/s10802-021-00865-2. Springer US 2021-09-09 2022 /pmc/articles/PMC8940780/ /pubmed/34499292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00865-2 Text en © The Author(s) 2021 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . |
spellingShingle | Article Isdahl-Troye, Aimé Villar, Paula Domínguez-Álvarez, Beatriz Romero, Estrella Deater-Deckard, Kirby The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach |
title | The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach |
title_full | The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach |
title_fullStr | The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach |
title_full_unstemmed | The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach |
title_short | The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach |
title_sort | development of co-occurrent anxiety and externalizing problems from early childhood: a latent transition analysis approach |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8940780/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34499292 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10802-021-00865-2 |
work_keys_str_mv | AT isdahltroyeaime thedevelopmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT villarpaula thedevelopmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT dominguezalvarezbeatriz thedevelopmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT romeroestrella thedevelopmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT deaterdeckardkirby thedevelopmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT isdahltroyeaime developmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT villarpaula developmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT dominguezalvarezbeatriz developmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT romeroestrella developmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach AT deaterdeckardkirby developmentofcooccurrentanxietyandexternalizingproblemsfromearlychildhoodalatenttransitionanalysisapproach |