ArticleSocial psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology2021
Heterogeneity and heterotypic continuity of emotional and behavioural profiles across development.
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- Early-stage profiles of adolescent mental health difficulties and well-being: A systematic review of cluster analyses in large school and community samples.Journal of research on adolescence : the official journal of the Society for Research on Adolescence · 2025Pooled it
- Longitudinal Transitions Between Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms and Associations with Substance Use among US Young Adults, 2016-2023.Epidemiology (Cambridge, Mass.) · 2026Article
- Ultraprocessed Food Consumption and Behavioral Outcomes in Canadian Children.JAMA network open · 2026Article
- Maternal alcohol dependence symptoms, maternal insensitivity to children's distress, and young children's blunted emotional reactivity.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Co-occurrence, stability and manifestation of child and adolescent mental health problems: a latent transition analysis.BMC psychology · 2022Article
- The Family is the Patient: Promoting Early Childhood Mental Health in Pediatric Care.Pediatrics · 2022Article
- Adolescent depression, early psychiatric comorbidities, and adulthood welfare burden: a 25-year longitudinal cohort study.Social psychiatry and psychiatric epidemiology · 2021Article
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Abstract
purposeTo identify emotional and behavioural symptoms profiles from early childhood to adolescence, their stability across development and associated factors.
methodsOur sample included 17,216 children assessed at ages 3, 5, 7, 11 and 14 years from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. We used latent profile and latent transition analysis to study their emotional and behavioural profiles from early childhood to adolescence. We included sociodemographic, family and parenting variables to study the effect on latent profile membership and transitions.
resultsThe number and specific profiles of emotional and behavioural symptoms changed with the developmental stage. We found a higher number of profiles for ages 3, 5, and 14, suggesting greater heterogeneity in the presentation of emotional and behavioural symptoms in early childhood and adolescence compared to late childhood. There was greater heterotypic continuity between ages 3 and 5, particularly in transitions from higher to lower severity profiles. Children exposed to socioeconomic disadvantages were more likely to belong or transition to any moderate or high emotional and behavioural symptoms profiles. Maternal psychological distress and harsh parenting were associated with internalizing and externalizing profiles, respectively. Higher levels of internalizing and externalizing symptoms across development were associated with lower mental wellbeing and higher rates of self-harm and substance use in adolescence.
conclusionEmotional and behavioural symptoms develop early in life, with levels of heterogeneity and heterotypic stability that change throughout development. These results call for interventions to prevent and treat paediatric mental illness that consider the heterogeneity and stability of symptoms across development.
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