Environmental influences
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Factors mitigating the harmful effects of intimate partner violence on adolescents’ depressive symptoms—A longitudinal birth cohort study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘This study assessed the extent to which positive experiences were associated with depressive symptoms among children with and without experience of intimate partner violence.’ Dawid Gondek et al.
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Annual Research Review: Stability of psychopathology: lessons learned from longitudinal population survey
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Psychopathology has been long recognized as a fluctuating process with various expressions over time, which can only be properly understood if we follow individuals and their social context from childhood up until adulthood”. Albertine J. Oldehinkel (pic) and Johan Ormel
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Prospective prediction of developing internalizing disorders in ADHD
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Clinical course in attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) is highly heterogeneous with respect to both core symptoms and associated features and impairment”. Sarah L. Karalunas (pic) et al.
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Explaining the influence of non-shared environment (NSE) on symptoms of behaviour problems from preschool to adulthood: mind the missing NSE gap
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We assessed the extent to which variance in behaviour problem symptoms during the first two decades of life can be accounted for by measured NSE effects after controlling for genetics and shared environment”. Agnieszka Gidziela et al.
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Prenatal alcohol exposure and child sleep problems: A family-based quasi-experimental study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “We examine whether associations between prenatal exposure to hazardous maternal alcohol consumption during the first trimester of pregnancy and sleep problems in young children represent a causal association”. Ingunn Olea Lund and Eivind Ystrom (pic)
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Paternal perinatal stress is associated with children’s emotional problems at 2 years
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Rates of help-seeking among fathers is low, possibly due to conceptualising their own difficulties as stress rather than problems with mood”. Fiona L. Challacombe (pic) et al.
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The potential moderating role of living in a conflict area on the link between classroom psychosocial stressors, perceived stress and change in anxiety symptoms in Israeli school children
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Perceived stress associated with relational victimization from peers and conflictual relations with the teacher have been linked with the development of anxiety symptoms in children”. Pia Behnsen et al.
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Developmental co-occurrence of psychopathology dimensions in childhood
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – “Here, we aim to determine whether and to what extent directional relationships between psychopathology dimensions within-person, and between individuals within families, play a role in comorbidity”. Andrea G. Allegrini (pic) et al
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Psychological legacies of intergenerational trauma under South African apartheid: Prenatal stress predicts greater vulnerability to the psychological impacts of future stress exposure during late adolescence and early adulthood in Soweto, South Africa
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “We evaluate the intergenerational effects of prenatal stress experienced during apartheid on psychiatric morbidity among children at ages 17–18 and also assess the moderating effects of maternal age, social support, and past household adversity”. Andrew Wooyoung Kim (pic) et al.
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Mother’s and children’s ADHD genetic risk, household chaos and children’s ADHD symptoms: A gene–environment correlation study
Open Access paper from the JCPP – “Chaotic home environments may contribute to children’s attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms. However, ADHD genetic risk may also influence household chaos”. Jessica C. Agnew-Blais (pic) et al.
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