ReviewResearch on child and adolescent psychopathology2023
Challenges with Latent Variable Approaches to Operationalizing Dimensions of Childhood adversity - a Commentary on Sisitsky et al. (2023).
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- Leveraging multivariate approaches to advance the science of early-life adversity.Child abuse & neglect · 2025Review
- Maltreatment effects on cognitive control functional connectivity across adolescence: Prospective links to young adult mental health.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Nucleus accumbens volume mediates the association between prenatal adversity and attention problems in youth.Development and psychopathology · 2025Article
- Family Functioning and Pubertal Maturation in Hispanic/Latino Children from the HCHS/SOL Youth.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2025Article
- Dimensions of perinatal and childhood adversities both merge and remain distinct.Child abuse & neglect · 2025Article
- Early-life threat and deprivation: Are children similarly affected by exposure to each?Child developmentArticle
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- Emotion dysregulation as a pathway linking adversity and temperament to general psychopathology in childhood.International journal of clinical and health psychology : IJCHPArticle
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Abstract
Childhood adversity is a common, powerful risk factor for future mental and physical health problems. Appropriately aggregating and categorizing discrete adverse experiences into cumulative indices remains an active area of research and debate in the field of developmental psychopathology. In a recent article by Sisitsky et al. (2013), they report using confirmatory factor analysis and latent profile analysis to categorize participants into "profiles" of childhood adversity. In this commentary, we argue that categorizing dimensions or profiles of childhood adversity based on the tendency of adversities to co-occur is misaligned with dimensional models of adversity, which derive underlying dimensions from their tendency to cumulatively predict certain outcomes rather than adversity co-occurrence. We summarize the history of theories and methods of operationalizing childhood adversity that led to the development of the dimensional model of adversity and psychopathology. We then explain why latent variable approaches, which simply reflect the tendency of adverse experiences to co-occur, are inappropriate for validating any given approach.
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