Development of Internalizing Mental Health Symptoms from Early Childhood to Late Adolescence.

ABSTRACT: Children's mental health symptoms' development can be characterized by both continuity and discontinuity. However, existing studies ignore the potential discontinuity in children's internalizing symptoms' development. Hence, the current study examines continuous and discontinuous developmental trajectories using representative data from a sample of 2792 children (49.10% females) from the Growing Up in Australia cohort assessed seven times (ages 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 16). Longitudinal measurement invariance analyses revealed that internalizing symptoms were comparable over time. Linear, quadratic, and piecewise latent growth curve models were deployed to estimate the trajectory of internalizing symptoms from early childhood to late adolescence. The analyses showed that internalizing symptoms

SUBMITTER: Katsantonis IG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11353613 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature