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Unpacking Associations between Mood Symptoms and Screen Time in Preadolescents: a Network Analysis.
This study, for the first time, examined the relationships of mood symptoms with different types of screen time, while accounting for theoretically important factors-parental monitoring and the behavioral inhibition/activation systems (BIS/BAS)-in preadolescents aged 9 to 10 from 9986 families participating in the Adolescent Brain and Cognitive Development Study. Using mixed graphical models, we found that screen time involving age-inappropriate content was stably and significantly associated with various elevated mood symptoms, independent from other types of screen time, BIS/BAS, and parental monitoring. Additionally, ag...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Lin SY, Eaton NR, Schleider JL Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Developmental Trajectories of Adolescent Girls' Borderline Personality Symptoms and Sexual Risk Behaviors.
This study examines developmental trajectories of adolescent girls' BPD symptoms and sexual risk behaviors in a community sample of Black and White girls from the Pittsburgh Girls Study (n = 1620). Dual trajectory modeling provided insights into the temporal precedence and co-development of BPD symptoms and sexual risk behaviors from ages 14 to 18. In order to examine the unique association between BPD symptoms and sexual risk behaviors, analyses controlled for symptoms of depression and conduct disorder, as well as race, sexual orientation, and pubertal development. Girls with more BPD symptoms at age 14 showed steepe...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 11, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Choukas-Bradley S, Hipwell AE, Roberts SR, Maheux AJ, Stepp SD Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Sluggish Cognitive Tempo and Depressive Symptoms in Children and Adolescents Predict Adulthood Psychopathology.
Abstract Sluggish cognitive tempo (SCT) is characterized by behavioral symptoms reflecting slowness and lethargy (e.g., sluggishness, appearing sleepy) and inconsistent alertness/mental confusion (e.g., daydreaming, fogginess). SCT is substantially correlated with the inattentive symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and may be part of that domain, but in cross-sectional data, SCT is also strongly associated with both inattention and depression. To date, no study has examined the prospective associations of SCT symptoms in childhood/adolescence with symptoms of ADHD and internalizing ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Smith ZR, Zald DH, Lahey BB Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Early Parenting Characteristics Associated with Internalizing Symptoms Across Seven Waves of the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children.
Abstract The aim of this study was to identify whether parenting style during a child's toddler years predicts the course of the child's internalising symptoms throughout early to middle childhood. The current study uses data from waves 1 to 7 (acquired biennially) of the infant cohort (N = 4494) of Growing up in Australia: the Longitudinal Study of Australian Children (LSAC), a population-based longitudinal study. Latent class growth analysis identified four distinct longitudinal trajectories of internalizing symptoms: Low stable (66% of the children), High increasing (7%), Low increasing (17%) and Hig...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kemmis-Riggs J, Grove R, McAloon J, Berle D Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Correction to: Promises and Pitfalls of Latent Variable Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology: Reply to Burke and Johnston, Eid, Jungh änel and Colleagues, and Willoughby.
Correction to: Promises and Pitfalls of Latent Variable Approaches to Understanding Psychopathology: Reply to Burke and Johnston, Eid, Junghänel and Colleagues, and Willoughby. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2020 Sep 07;: Authors: Burns GL, Geiser C, Servera M, Becker SP, Beauchaine TP Abstract The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. The supplementary material was not captured to our commentary article. PMID: 32894415 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Burns GL, Geiser C, Servera M, Becker SP, Beauchaine TP Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Correction to: Heterogeneous Trajectories of Problematic Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and their Co-Occurrence in Young Adults with and without Childhood ADHD.
Abstract The original version of this article unfortunately contained a mistake. PMID: 32894416 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 6, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Wang FL, Pedersen SL, Devlin B, Gnagy EM, Pelham WE, Molina BSG Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Longitudinal Trajectories of Sustained Attention Development in Children and Adolescents with ADHD.
Abstract The present study characterizes changes in sustained attention ability over ages 9-14, and whether longitudinal trajectories of attention development differ between persistent ADHD, remitted ADHD and control groups. The Sustained Attention to Response Task (SART) was administered to 120 children with ADHD and 123 controls on three occasions between ages 9 and 14. Trajectories of sustained attention development, indicated by changes in SART performance (standard deviation of response time [SDRT], omission errors, and ex-Gaussian parameters sigma and tau), were examined using generalized additive mi...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 4, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Thomson P, Vijayakumar N, Johnson KA, Malpas CB, Sciberras E, Efron D, Hazell P, Silk TJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Proximal Interpersonal Processes in Early Childhood, Socioemotional Capacities in Middle Childhood, and Behavioral and Social Adaptation in Early Adolescence: A Process Model toward Greater Specificity.
Abstract Early proximal interpersonal processes in central microsystems have been widely linked to child subsequent adaptation. What remains sparse is research spanning multiple developmental stages and examining unique, relative implications of distinct early proximal interpersonal processes for child later adjustment in various domains and the cognitive, emotional, and behavioral mechanisms underlying such associations. Using NICHD SECCYD data, a process model was tested in which negativities and positivities in three early proximal interpersonal processes (i.e., mother-child, child care provider-child, ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - September 2, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Cao H, Liang Y, Zhou N Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Real-World Changes in Adolescents' ADHD Symptoms within the Day and across School and Non-school Days.
In conclusion, our study is the first to examine important environmental factors (school, time of day) in real time in relation to level of naturalistically occurring ADHD symptoms. Our findings highlight the importance of advancing treatments to support adolescents with ADHD on school days and in the afternoon. PMID: 32860554 [PubMed - as supplied by publisher] (Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology)
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 28, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Pedersen SL, Kennedy TM, Joseph HM, Riston SJ, Kipp HL, Molina BSG Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Longitudinal Relations among Adolescent Risk Behavior, Family Cohesion, Violence Exposure, and Mental Health in a National Sample.
Abstract Violence is a public health concern linked with mental health problems among adolescents, and risk behavior increases the likelihood of violence exposure. Family cohesion may attenuate the negative effects of risk behavior. The purpose of this study was to examine family cohesion as a moderator in the relation between risk behavior (substance use and delinquency) and violence exposure, and to explore longitudinal associations among cohesion, violence exposure, and subsequent mental health outcomes (PTSD and depression). Data were drawn from the National Survey of Adolescents-Replication, a nationa...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 25, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goodrum NM, Smith DW, Hanson RF, Moreland AD, Saunders BE, Kilpatrick DG Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Why Family Communication Matters: the Role of Co-rumination and Topic Avoidance in Understanding Post-Disaster Mental Health.
This study explored the moderating role of topic avoidance and co-rumination on post-disaster mental health (MH) in a sample of 485 parent-child dyads following severe floods affecting Texas. Parents (69.0% female) and their oldest child between the ages of 10-19 years (M = 13.75 years, SD = 2.56) completed online surveys approximately one-year post-flooding. Participants reported their flood exposure, life stressors since the disaster, topic avoidance, co-rumination, and MH symptoms (posttraumatic stress symptoms [PTSS], depression, anxiety). Structural equation models tested a moderated-mediation model of wheth...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 21, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Felix ED, Afifi TD, Horan SM, Meskunas H, Garber A Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Do Parents' ADHD Symptoms Affect Treatment for their Children? The Impact of Parental ADHD on Adherence to Behavioral Parent Training for Childhood ADHD.
Abstract Nearly half of all youth with Attention-Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder (ADHD) have at least one parent who also meets criteria for the disorder, and intergenerational ADHD is a significant risk factor for poor outcomes following evidence-based behavioral parent training (BPT) programs. Given that BPT is predicated on consistent parental involvement, symptoms of ADHD in parents may be a significant barrier to effective engagement with BPT treatment. In the present investigation, we examine the effect of parental ADHD symptoms on BPT treatment engagement for children with ADHD-predominantly inattent...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 18, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Friedman LM, Dvorsky MR, McBurnett K, Pfiffner LJ Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Accidental and Ambiguous Situations Reveal Specific Social Information Processing Biases and Deficits in Adolescents with Low Intellectual Level and Clinical Levels of Externalizing Behavior.
Abstract Addressing aggression in youth requires understanding of the range of social problem situations that may lead to biased social information processing (SIP). The present study investigated situation-specificity of SIP and analyzed whether SIP deficits and biases are found in ambiguous as well as clearly accidental situations in adolescents with clinical levels of externalizing behavior or with low intellectual level, congruent with mild intellectual disability. Adolescents (N = 220, Mage = 15.21) completed a SIP test on a mobile app with six videos with ambiguous, hostile, and accidental so...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 12, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Van Rest MM, Van Nieuwenhuijzen M, Kupersmidt JB, Vriens A, Schuengel C, Matthys W Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Integrating Tobacco Prevention Skills into an Evidence-Based Intervention for Adolescents with ADHD: Results from a Pilot Efficacy Randomized Controlled Trial.
Abstract Adolescents with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at high risk for tobacco use, but tobacco use prevention strategies are not regularly incorporated into evidence-based ADHD interventions. We conducted a pilot randomized-controlled trial to determine the feasibility of integrating tobacco use prevention skills into a behavioral treatment for ADHD and to provide preliminary efficacy data comparing a combined (ADHD + tobacco) intervention (N = 40) to an ADHD only intervention (N = 23) on tobacco risk outcomes. Sixty-three adolescents (72% male; 13-17 years) with ADHD and ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Corona R, Dvorsky MR, Romo S, Parks AM, Bourchtein E, Smith ZR, Avila M, Langberg J Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Maternal Emotion Dysregulation Predicts Emotion Socialization Practices and Adolescent Emotion Lability: Conditional Effects of Youth ADHD Symptoms.
Abstract Maternal emotional functioning and emotion socialization practices can facilitate or hinder children's emotional development, and youth with symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are at increased risk for emotion lability. However, little is known about the independent and interactive effects of maternal emotion dysregulation and adolescent ADHD symptoms on maternal emotion socialization and adolescent emotion lability over time. Using secondary data analyses of a longitudinal community sample of youth and their mothers (Nbaseline = 247; 43.7% female), the current study e...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - August 9, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Oddo LE, Miller NV, Felton JW, Cassidy J, Lejuez CW, Chronis-Tuscano A Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research