ArticleThe Australian and New Zealand journal of psychiatry2026
Middle childhood profiles of social-emotional competencies and difficulties differentiate risk of health service presentations with adolescent mental disorders.
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objectiveThe dual-factor model of mental health postulates a role for positive mental health, alongside mental illness, in determining mental health care needs. Informed by this model, the present study delineated profiles of social-emotional competencies and difficulties during middle childhood in a population-based sample of girls and boys and determined their association with adolescent mental disorder diagnoses.
methodLatent profile analyses were conducted across five indices of social-emotional competency and four indices of psychopathology that were measured by questionnaire self-report among 13,349 girls and 13,488 boys at age ~11 years. The association of the profiles with adolescent presentations to hospital or ambulatory services (ages ~12-17 years) were determined using logistic regression.
resultsAnalyses yielded five profiles in each sex:
conclusionCombining information on social-emotional competencies and psychopathology in middle childhood may help refine the provision of mental health promotion and early intervention to alleviate adolescent mental disorder.
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