ArticleSchizophrenia bulletin2014
Adolescent self-control predicts midlife hallucinatory experiences: 40-year follow-up of a national birth cohort.
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- Cognitive profiles in childhood and adolescence differ between adult psychotic and affective symptoms: a prospective birth cohort study.Psychological medicine · 2018Article
- Adolescent self-control behavior predicts body weight through the life course: a prospective birth cohort study.International journal of obesity (2005) · 2016Article
- Prospective associations between adolescent mental health problems and positive mental wellbeing in early old age.Child and adolescent psychiatry and mental health · 2016Article
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Abstract
backgroundAssociations between self-control in adolescence and adult mental health are unclear in the general population; to our knowledge, no study has investigated self-control in relation to psychotic-like symptoms.
aimsTo investigate the relationship between adolescent self-control and the midlife mental health outcomes of anxiety and depression symptoms and psychotic-like experiences (PLEs), controlling for the effect of adolescent conduct and emotional problems and for parental occupational social class and childhood cognition.
methodsA population-based sample, the MRC National Survey of Health and Development (the British 1946 birth cohort) was contacted 23 times between ages 6 weeks and 53 years. Teachers completed rating scales to assess emotional adjustment and behaviors, from which factors measuring self-control, behavioral, and emotional problems were extracted. At age 53 years, PLEs were self-reported by 2918 participants using 4 items from the Psychosis Screening Questionnaire; symptoms of anxiety and depression were assessed using the scaled version of the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ-28).
resultsAfter adjustment for the above covariates, poor adolescent self-control was associated with the presence of PLEs in adulthood, specifically hallucinatory experiences at age 53 years, even after adjustment for GHQ-28 scores.
conclusionsLower self-control in adolescence is a risk factor for hallucinatory experiences in adulthood.
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