ArticleJournal of abnormal child psychology2016
Trajectories of Oppositional Defiant Disorder Irritability Symptoms in Preschool Children.
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- Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis: Early Irritability as a Transdiagnostic Neurodevelopmental Vulnerability to Later Mental Health Problems.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2024Pooled it
- The Status of Irritability in Psychiatry: A Conceptual and Quantitative Review.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2016Pooled it
- Parent training for the treatment of irritability in children and adolescents: a multisite randomized controlled, 3-parallel-group, evaluator-blinded, superiority trial.BMC psychology · 2022Trial
- Locus-Coeruleus Norepinephrine Functioning as a Predictor of Childhood Mental Health (LOCUS-MENTAL): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- Symptoms of Oppositional Behavior In autistic Adolescents and Adolescents Who Have Lost the Autism diagnosis.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2026Article
- Understanding the Etiology of Externalizing Problems in Young Children: The Roles of Callous-Unemotional Traits and Irritability.Journal of the American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025Article
- The hidden burden: self-reported irritability in adolescent girls signals higher psychiatric risk.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Genetic and Environmental Influences on the Development of Irritability from Ages 3 to 5 Years.Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 · 2025Article
- Emotion process deficits in children with ODD and their associations with different dimensions of ODD symptoms: a fNIRS study.Social cognitive and affective neuroscience · 2025Article
- Irritability in Youths: A Critical Integrative Review.The American journal of psychiatry · 2024Review
- Offspring irritability: associations with parental psychopathology and personality.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2023Article
- Latent classes of oppositional defiant disorder in adolescence and prediction to later psychopathology.Development and psychopathology · 2023Article
- Reciprocal relations between dimensions of Oppositional defiant problems and callous-unemotional traits.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2022Article
- Trajectory of emotion dysregulation in positive and negative affect across childhood predicts adolescent emotion dysregulation and overall functioning.Development and psychopathology · 2021Article
- The Impact of Persistent Irritability on the Medication Treatment of Paediatric Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Effects of Irritability of the Youth on Subjective Well-Being: Mediating Effect of Coping Styles.Iranian journal of public health · 2020Article
- Emotional functioning and the development of internalizing and externalizing problems in young boys with and without autism spectrum disorder.Autism : the international journal of research and practice · 2020Article
- Excitability and irritability in preschoolers predicts later psychopathology: The importance of positive and negative emotion dysregulation.Development and psychopathology · 2019Article
- The Role of Irritability in the Treatment of Behavior Disorders: A Review of Theory, Research, and a Proposed Framework.Clinical child and family psychology review · 2019Review
- A Methylome-Wide Association Study of Trajectories of Oppositional Defiant Behaviors and Biological Overlap With Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder.Child development · 2018Article
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Abstract
unlabelledThis study traces the developmental course of irritability symptoms in oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) from ages 3-5 and examines the psychopathological outcomes of the different trajectories at age 6.
methodA sample of 622 3-year-old preschoolers (311 were boys), followed up until age 6, was assessed yearly with a semi-structured diagnostic interview with parents and at age 6 with questionnaires answered by parents, teachers and children.
resultsGrowth-Mixture-Modeling yielded five trajectories of irritability levels for the whole sample (high-persistent 3.5%, decreasing 3.8%, increasing 2.6%, low-persistent 44.1% and null 46.0%). Among the children who presented with ODD during preschool age, three trajectories of irritability symptoms resulted (high-persistent 31.9%, decreasing 34.9% and increasing 33.2%). Null, low-persistent and decreasing irritability courses in the sample as a whole gave very similar discriminative capacity for children's psychopathological state at age 6, while the increasing and high-persistent categories involved poorer clinical outcomes than the null course. For ODD children, the high-persistent and increasing trajectories of irritability predicted disruptive behavior disorders, comorbidity, high level of functional impairment, internalizing and externalizing problems and low anger control at age 6.
conclusionsIrritability identifies a subset of ODD children at high risk of poorer longitudinal psychopathological and functional outcomes. It might be clinically relevant to identify this subset of ODD children with a high number of irritability symptoms throughout development with a view to preventing comorbid and future adverse longitudinal outcomes.
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