Association of Fluid Intelligence and Psychiatric Disorders in a Population-Representative Sample of US Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Despite long-standing interest in the association of psychiatric disorders with intelligence, few population-based studies of psychiatric disorders have assessed intelligence.

Objective

To investigate the association of fluid intelligence with past-year and lifetime psychiatric disorders, disorder age at onset, and disorder severity in a nationally representative sample of US adolescents.

Design, setting, and participants

National sample of adolescents ascertained from schools and households from the National Comorbidity Survey Replication-Adolescent Supplement, collected 2001 through 2004. Face-to-face household interviews with adolescents and questionnaires from parents were obtained. The data were analyzed from February to December 2016. DSM-IV mental di

SUBMITTER: Keyes KM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5288266 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature