ArticleJournal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53
Chronic Stress Exposure and Generation Are Related to the P-Factor and Externalizing Specific Psychopathology in Youth.
Article in Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 38 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
38 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 72 citations in OpenAlex.
- Prenatal stress and externalizing behaviors in childhood and adolescence: A systematic review and meta-analysis.Psychological bulletin · 2024Pooled it
- The effects of school-based interventions on physiological stress in adolescents: A meta-analysis.Stress and health : journal of the International Society for the Investigation of Stress · 2022Pooled it
- Helping the Noncompliant Child and Child Behavior Outcomes: An Exploratory Examination of Financial Strain.Prevention science : the official journal of the Society for Prevention Research · 2025Trial
- Global deficits in executive functioning are transdiagnostic mediators between severe childhood neglect and psychopathology in adolescence.Psychological medicine · 2020Trial
- Stress sensitization among severely neglected children and protection by social enrichment.Nature communications · 2019Trial
- Effect of Foster Care Intervention on Trajectories of General and Specific Psychopathology Among Children With Histories of Institutional Rearing: A Randomized Clinical Trial.JAMA psychiatry · 2018Trial
- Toward next-generation stress generation research: Expert consensus methodological guidelines.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2026Article
- Locus-Coeruleus Norepinephrine Functioning as a Predictor of Childhood Mental Health (LOCUS-MENTAL): Protocol for a Longitudinal Study.JMIR research protocols · 2026Article
- ATLAS-a psychobiological model of teacher stress in classroom interactions.Frontiers in psychology · 2026Review
- The allostatic triage model of psychopathology (ATP Model): How reallocation of brain energetic resources under stress elicits psychiatric symptoms.Neuroscience and biobehavioral reviews · 2025Review
- Understanding desistance from aggression: A joint interpretation of person-centered and variable-centered approaches.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- What Works for Whom? The Influence of Problem Severity, Maladaptive Perfectionism, and Perceived Parental Pressure on the Effectiveness of a School-Based Performance Anxiety Program.Behavioral sciences (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- The Intersection of Personality Dimensions with Stress Relief Strategies in Adolescence: An Experimental Study.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2024Article
- Transcriptomics and psychotherapy: An integrative review.Brain, behavior, & immunity - health · 2024Review
- Long-Term Mandatory Homeschooling during COVID-19 Had Compounding Mental Health Effects on Parents and Children.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Early life stress predicts trajectories of emotional problems and hippocampal volume in adolescence.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2024Article
- Identifying the 'active ingredients' of socioeconomic disadvantage for youth outcomes in middle childhood.Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- Risk and resilience factors for psychopathology during pregnancy: An application of the Hierarchical Taxonomy of Psychopathology (HiTOP).Development and psychopathology · 2024Article
- The hierarchical taxonomy of psychopathology in clinical high risk for psychosis: Validation and extension.Journal of psychopathology and clinical science · 2024Article
- Review: Preventing Psychopathology in the Digital Age: Leveraging Technology to Target Coping and Emotion Regulation in Adolescents.JAACAP open · 2024Review
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
3 authors at 3 institutions in 2 countries.
Funding
Abstract
Psychopathology is posited to be transdiagnostically linked to chronic stress. Yet efforts to understand the specificity and directionality of these links have been sparse, and the ubiquitous comorbidity of psychopathology has made the seemingly nonspecific links between psychological disorders and chronic stress difficult to interpret. The current study used a latent dimensional bifactor model of psychopathology to account for comorbidity and a multiwave prospective design to disentangle temporal associations between psychopathology and chronic stress longitudinally during the critical adolescent period for psychopathology risk and stress reactivity. A community sample of 567 youth (55.5% female, age M = 11.8 at baseline, M = 15.1 at end of study) were followed prospectively for 3 years, with chronic stress assessed with the Youth Life Stress Interview and psychopathology symptoms assessed via both self and parent report. Exposure to chronic stress predicted what is common across forms of psychopathology (the p factor), which in turn predicted generation of chronic stress over time. After accounting for comorbidity via the p factor, externalizing behaviors also had specific transactional links to chronic stress, whereas links between internalizing psychopathology and chronic stress were completely accounted for by common psychopathology. The results provide the first direct evidence that chronic stress is transdiagnostically and reciprocally linked to psychopathology, during a critical youth period for psychopathology onset and stress reactivity.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.