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The Main and Interactive Associations between Demographic Factors and Psychopathology and Treatment Utilization in Youth: A Test of Intersectionality in the ABCD Study.
This study examined rates of parent-reported psychopathology and mental health treatment utilization as a function of several demographic characteristics (in isolation and in concert) in a population-based, demographically diverse sample of 11,875 9- to 10-year-old youth. Results indicated most consistently that lower SES was associated with greater rates of psychopathology and greater likelihood of treatment utilization; that Asian American youth (relative to all other racial groups) and Hispanic/Latinx (relative to non-Hispanic/Latinx) youth were less likely to have a history of psychopathology or to have utilized treatm...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 30, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Mennies RJ, Birk SL, Norris LA, Olino TM Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

The Structure of Psychopathology in a Sample of Clinically Referred, Emotionally Dysregulated Early Adolescents.
Abstract This investigation answers and amplifies calls to model the transdiagnostic structure of psychopathology in clinical samples of early adolescents and using stringent psychometric criteria. In 162 clinically referred, clinically evaluated 11-13-year-olds, we compared a correlated two-factor model, containing latent internalizing and externalizing factors, to a bifactor model, which added a transdiagnostic general factor. We also evaluated the bifactor model psychometrically, including criterion validity with broad indicators of psychosocial functioning. In doing so, we compared alternative approach...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 27, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Vine V, Byrd AL, Mohr H, Scott LN, Beeney JE, Stepp SD Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Structure and Psychometric Properties of the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children in Chinese Adolescents.
Abstract The present research introduced the Penn State Worry Questionnaire for Children (PSWQ-C) to China and evaluated its structure and psychometric properties in Chinese adolescent samples. The PSWQ-C is a 14-item self-report questionnaire designed to measure the generality, excessiveness, and uncontrollability aspects of pathological worries in children and adolescents. Factor analysis results suggested that the three reverse-scored items represented one or more unknown factors rather than worry; thus, they were discarded and the remaining 11 positively worded items formed the Chinese version of the P...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 24, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Liu Y, Zhong J Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Community Violence Exposure and Youth Aggression: The Moderating Role of Working Memory.
Abstract Community violence exposure (CVE) is associated with aggression among youth, particularly those who reside in low-income, urban neighborhoods. However, not all youth who experience CVE exhibit aggression. Working memory (WM) difficulties may interfere with attributions or retrieval of nonaggressive responses, suggesting that individual differences in WM may contribute to proactive and/or reactive aggression among youth who experience CVE. Participants were 104 low-income, urban youth (M = 9.92 ± 1.22 years old; 50.5% male; 95% African American). Youth reported on frequency of direct vict...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 23, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jakubovic RJ, Drabick DAG Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Relations Among Anxious Solitude, Peer Exclusion, and Maternal Overcontrol from 3rd Through 7th Grade: Peer Effects on Youth, Youth Evocative Effects on Mothering, and the Indirect Effect of Peers on Mothering via Youth.
This study evaluated a transactional model of youth anxious solitude and peer and maternal relations from 3rd through 7th grade. Participants were 230 American youth (57% girls) selected for longitudinal study from a screening sample recruited from public schools (N = 688). Peers reported on anxious solitude and peer exclusion and youth reported on their mother's overcontrol annually. In an autoregressive cross-lagged panel analytic model peer exclusion predicted incremental increases in anxious solitude during elementary school and after the middle school transition. Additionally, anxious solitude evoked incremental i...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 22, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Gazelle H, Cui M Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

The Moderating Role of Child Maltreatment in Treatment Efficacy for Adolescent Depression.
Abstract Adolescent girls are at heightened risk of depression, and because adolescent depression may initiate a negative developmental cascade, intervention early in adolescence has potential for altering a negative developmental trajectory. Identifying risk factors that impact response to intervention may inform decisions about the type of treatment to provide for adolescent girls with depression. Understanding moderators of outcomes in evidence-based treatment is critical to the delivery of timely and effective interventions. Matching patients effectively with optimal intervention will not only expedite...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Toth SL, Handley ED, Manly JT, Sturm R, Adams TR, Demeusy EM, Cicchetti D Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Gender-Specific Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms in Chinese Children: Relations with Basic Psychological Needs Satisfaction at School.
Abstract This longitudinal study identified gender-specific developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms in Chinese children and their relations with basic psychological needs satisfaction at school (satisfaction of autonomy needs at school, relatedness needs at school, and competence needs at school). A total of 692 Chinese elementary school students in grades 3 and 4 (Mage = 8.96 years; SD = 0.76; 53.6% boys) comprised the sample. Assessments were conducted every 6 months on six occasions over 30 months. Growth mixture modeling (GMM) was used to explore the depressive symptom trajectories...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 20, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Zhong M, Huebner ES, Tian L Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

The Role of Paternal Accommodation of Paediatric OCD Symptoms: Patterns and Implications for Treatment Outcomes.
Abstract Family accommodation (FA) refers to the participation of family members in obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD) rituals. Most studies have focused on maternal accommodation; consequently, little is known about fathers' accommodation of OCD. The current study aims to extend the existing literature by examining maternal versus paternal accommodation of OCD symptoms.The sample consisted of 209 children with OCD (Mean [M] age = 14.1 years) and their parents (NMothers = 209, NFathers = 209) who had completed the Family Accommodation Scale- Parent Report (FAS-PR). Paired t-test and chi-squar...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Monzani B, Vidal-Ribas P, Turner C, Krebs G, Stokes C, Heyman I, Mataix-Cols D, Stringaris A Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

An Item-Based Analysis of PTSD Emotional Numbing Symptoms in Disaster-Exposed Children and Adolescents.
This study was designed to investigate the roles of numbing of positive and negative emotions in PTSD symptomology and related functional impairments. 14,465 Chinese children and adolescents who personally experienced the 2008 Wenchuan earthquake (in Sichuan province, China) took part in the study. Emotional numbing and other PTSD symptoms were assessed by the University of California-Los Angeles PTSD Reaction Index for Children. Functional impairment was measured by the Pediatric Quality of Life Inventory 4.0 Generic Core Scales. Item response theory (IRT) analysis showed that both numbing of positive and negative emotion...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 17, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Li G, Wang L, Cao C, Fang R, Chen C, Qiao X, Yang H, Hall BJ, Elhai JD Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Sustained Attention and Individual Differences in Adolescents' Mood and Physiological Reactivity to Stress.
Abstract Biased attention to sad faces is associated with depression in adults and is hypothesized to increase depression risk specifically in the presence, but not absence, of stress by modulating stress reactivity. However, few studies have tested this hypothesis, and no studies have examined the relation between attentional biases and stress reactivity during adolescence, despite evidence that this developmental window is marked by changes in depression risk, stress, and the function of attention. Seeking to address these limitations, the current study examined the impact of adolescents' sustained atten...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 15, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Feurer C, James KM, Foster CE, Gibb BE Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Subgroups of Childhood ADHD Based on Temperament Traits and Cognition: Concurrent and Predictive Validity.
Abstract Efforts to parse ADHD's heterogeneity in the DSM system has generally relied on subtypes, or presentations, based on different symptom combinations. Promising recent work has suggested that biologically-relevant and clinically predictive subgroups may be identified via an alternative feature set based on either a) temperament traits or b) executive function measures. Yet, the potential additive ability of these domains for specifying ADHD sub-phenotypes remains unknown. We thus sought to determine whether temperament traits and executive function, together, could facilitate a more nuanced and clin...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 13, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Goh PK, Lee CA, Martel MM, Karalunas SL, Nigg JT Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

"I Am a Total …Loser" - The Role of Interpretation Biases in Youth Depression.
"I Am a Total…Loser" - The Role of Interpretation Biases in Youth Depression. J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2020 Jul 11;: Authors: Sfärlea A, Buhl C, Loechner J, Neumüller J, Asperud Thomsen L, Starman K, Salemink E, Schulte-Körne G, Platt B Abstract Negative interpretation biases have been found to characterize adults with depression and to be involved in the development and maintenance of the disorder. However, less is known about their role in youth depression. The present study investigated i) whether negative interpretation biases characterize children and adolescents with dep...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 10, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Sfärlea A, Buhl C, Loechner J, Neumüller J, Asperud Thomsen L, Starman K, Salemink E, Schulte-Körne G, Platt B Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Heterogeneous Trajectories of Problematic Alcohol Use, Depressive Symptoms, and their Co-Occurrence in Young Adults with and without Childhood ADHD.
Abstract The literature is inconsistent regarding whether childhood ADHD confers risk for adulthood problematic alcohol use, depressive symptoms, and their co-occurrence. These inconsistencies could be due to meaningful heterogeneity in the adulthood outcomes of children with ADHD that were obscured in traditional group-based analyses. The current study tested this possibility, as well as the contribution of adulthood ADHD symptom persistence, in order to clarify long-term risk in this population. Children diagnosed with ADHD and demographically-similar children without ADHD were followed longitudinally in...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 8, 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

Thinking about Others' Minds: Mental State Inference in Boys with Conduct Problems and Callous-Unemotional Traits.
Abstract Children with conduct problems (CP) and high levels of callous-unemotional traits (CP/HCU) have been found to have an intact ability to represent other minds, however, they behave in ways that indicate a reduced propensity to consider other people's thoughts and feelings. Here we report findings from three tasks assessing different aspects of mentalising in 81 boys aged 11-16 [Typically developing (TD) n = 27; CP/HCU n = 28; CP and low levels of callous-unemotional traits (CP/LCU) n = 26]. Participants completed the Movie Assessment of Social Cognition (MASC), a task assessing ability/...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 5, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Roberts R, McCrory E, Bird G, Sharp M, Roberts L, Viding E Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research

Parent- and Child-Factors in Specific Phobias: The Interplay of Overprotection and Negative Affectivity.
Abstract Specific phobias are among the most prevalent anxiety disorders in children and adolescents. Although brief and intensive treatments are evidence-based interventions (Davis III et al. Annual Review of Clinical Psychology, 15, 233-256, 2019), up to one-third of youth do not show significant change in their symptoms following these interventions. Hence, consideration of additional factors influencing treatment response is necessary. Child-factors such as temperament and parent-factors such as parenting behaviors both contribute to the development of specific phobias and their maintenance over time. ...
Source: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology - July 3, 2020 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Capriola-Hall NN, Booker JA, Ollendick TH Tags: J Abnorm Child Psychol Source Type: research