Dysregulation in children: Origins and implications from age 5 to age 28.

ABSTRACT: Research shows that childhood dysregulation is associated with later psychiatric disorders. It does not yet resolve discrepancies in the operationalization of dysregulation. It is also far from settled on the origins and implications of individual differences in dysregulation. This study tested several operational definitions of dysregulation using Achenbach attention, anxious/depressed, and aggression subscales. Individual growth curves of dysregulation were computed, and predictors of growth differences were considered. The study also compared the predictive utility of the dysregulation indexes to standard externalizing and internalizing indexes. Dysregulation was indexed annually for 24 years in a community sample (n = 585). Hierarchical linear models considered changes in dysregulation

SUBMITTER: McQuillan ME 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6460462 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature