Childhood aggression and the co-occurrence of behavioural and emotional problems : results across ages 3-16years from multiple raters in six cohorts in the EU-ACTION project

Childhood aggression and its resulting consequences inflict a huge burden on affected children, their relatives, teachers, peers and society as a whole. Aggression during childhood rarely occurs in isolation and is correlated with other symptoms of childhood psychopathology. In this paper, we aim to describe and improve the understanding of the co-occurrence of aggression with other forms of childhood psychopathology. We focus on the co-occurrence of aggression and other childhood behavioural and emotional problems, including other externalising problems, attention problems and anxiety-depress... Mehr ...

Verfasser: Bartels, Meike
Hendriks, Anne
Mauri, Matteo
Krapohl, Eva
Whipp, Alyce
Bolhuis, Koen
Conde, Lucia Colodro
Luningham, Justin
Ip, Hill Fung
Hagenbeek, Fiona
Roetman, Peter
Gatej, Raluca
Lamers, Audri
Nivard, Michel
van Dongen, Jenny
Lu, Yi
Middeldorp, Christel
van Beijsterveldt, Toos
Vermeiren, Robert
Hankemeijer, Thomas
Kluft, Cees
Medland, Sarah
Lundstrom, Sebastian
Rose, Richard
Pulkkinen, Lea
Vuoksimaa, Eero
Korhonen, Tellervo
Martin, Nicholas G.
Lubke, Gitta
Finkenauer, Catrin
Fanos, Vassilios
Tiemeier, Henning
Lichtenstein, Paul
Plomin, Robert
Kaprio, Jaakko
Boomsma, Dorret I.
Dokumenttyp: Artikel
Erscheinungsdatum: 2018
Verlag/Hrsg.: Springer
Schlagwörter: Aggression / Childhood / Comorbidity / Co-occurence / Behavioural and emotional problems / ATTENTION-DEFICIT/HYPERACTIVITY DISORDER / CHARACTERISTIC CURVE ANALYSIS / BIPOLAR DISORDER / CONDUCT DISORDER / MENTAL-DISORDERS / DUTCH TWINS / CHILDREN / OUTCOMES / HERITABILITY / ADOLESCENTS / Neurology and psychiatry / Psychology / Gynaecology and paediatrics
Sprache: Englisch
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Link(s) : http://hdl.handle.net/10138/247094

Childhood aggression and its resulting consequences inflict a huge burden on affected children, their relatives, teachers, peers and society as a whole. Aggression during childhood rarely occurs in isolation and is correlated with other symptoms of childhood psychopathology. In this paper, we aim to describe and improve the understanding of the co-occurrence of aggression with other forms of childhood psychopathology. We focus on the co-occurrence of aggression and other childhood behavioural and emotional problems, including other externalising problems, attention problems and anxiety-depression. The data were brought together within the EU-ACTION (Aggression in Children: unravelling gene-environment interplay to inform Treatment and InterventiON strategies) project. We analysed the co-occurrence of aggression and other childhood behavioural and emotional problems as a function of the child's age (ages 3 through 16years), gender, the person rating the behaviour (father, mother or self) and assessment instrument. The data came from six large population-based European cohort studies from the Netherlands (2x), the UK, Finland and Sweden (2x). Multiple assessment instruments, including the Child Behaviour Checklist (CBCL), the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) and Multidimensional Peer Nomination Inventory (MPNI), were used. There was a good representation of boys and girls in each age category, with data for 30,523 3- to 4-year-olds (49.5% boys), 20,958 5- to 6-year-olds (49.6% boys), 18,291 7- to 8-year-olds (49.0% boys), 27,218 9- to 10-year-olds (49.4% boys), 18,543 12- to 13-year-olds (48.9% boys) and 10,088 15- to 16-year-olds (46.6% boys). We replicated the well-established gender differences in average aggression scores at most ages for parental ratings. The gender differences decreased with age and were not present for self-reports. Aggression co-occurred with the majority of other behavioural and social problems, from both externalising and internalising domains. At each age, the ...