Toward an optimized assessment of adolescent psychopathology risk: Multilevel environmental profiles and child irritability as predictors

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Posted on 13 June 2023

‘Toward an optimized assessment of adolescent psychopathology risk: Multilevel environmental profiles and child irritability as predictors’

Open Access paper from JCPP Advances

Adolescence is a developmental period during which youth experience vulnerability to psychopathology. To build the foundation for a parsimonious psychopathology risk calculator while capturing the complexity and dynamic nature of the environment, the current study aimed to identify distinct risk and resilience profiles with a wide range of environmental factors guided by Bronfenbrenner’s biopsychosocial ecological system theory. The association between the early-mid childhood risk profiles and psychopathology in adolescence were examined. Moreover, the predictive utility of early childhood irritability was evaluated in addition to the risk profiles.

Authors: Qiongru Yu, Brianna Hernandez, Conner Swineford, Nia Walker, Leigha MacNeill, Yudong Zhang, Lauren S. Wakschlag, Jillian L. Wiggins

First published: 13 June 2023

https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12180

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