Person-Centered Trajectories of Psychopathology From Early Childhood to Late Adolescence.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

The understanding of the development of psychopathology has been hampered by a reliance on cross-sectional data and symptom- or disorder-centered methods. Person-centered methods can accommodate both the problems of comorbidity and the movement between different psychopathological states at different phases of development.

Objective

To examine the profiles and map the trajectories of psychopathology from early childhood to late adolescence.

Design, setting, and participants

This cohort study used 2 longitudinal nationally representative community-based cohorts from the Growing Up in Ireland study covering developmental periods from early childhood to late adolescence. Data in this investigation came from children and their families who participated in all w

SUBMITTER: Healy C 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9092205 | biostudies-literature | 2022 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature