Normative Irritability in Youth: Developmental Findings From the Great Smoky Mountains Study.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

The goal of this study is to examine the developmental epidemiology of normative irritability and its tonic and phasic components in a longitudinal community sample of youth.

Method

Eight waves of data from the prospective, community Great Smoky Mountains Study (6,674 assessments of 1,420 participants) were used, covering children in the community 9 to 16 years of age. Youth and 1 parent were interviewed using the Child and Adolescent Psychiatric Assessment to assess tonic (touchy/easily annoyed, irritable mood, angry or resentful) and phasic (temper tantrums or anger outbursts) components of irritability, including frequency, duration, onset, and cross-context variability.

Results

At any given point in childhood/adolescence, 51.4% (standard error [SE] = 1.4

SUBMITTER: Copeland WE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4515775 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature