Editorial: Some roads less travelled—different routes to understanding the causes of child psychopathology

Lervåg, Arne

doi:10.1111/jcpp.13274

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“…First, it provides a better representation of the real‐life processes, as we expect them to occur within individuals, and it aligns with theoretical work, suggesting that victimization may be related to (perceived) physical health by shaping adolescents' biological stress systems (Prinstein & Giletta, 2020; Schacter, 2021). Second, within‐person effects are not biased by time‐invariant unobserved confounders (e.g., personality traits; Lervåg, 2020). Therefore, these within‐person effects are more suitable to base intervention strategies upon as they provide more direct evidence that peer victimization and perceived physical health associate with one another.…”

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“…That is, even if as compared with adolescents with low exposure to peer victimization, peer victimized adolescents report poorer perceived physical health, it cannot be assumed that when adolescents are exposed to more peer victimization (as compared with their own average exposure level), they also report higher levels of perceived physical health problems (as compared with their own average level). Mounting evidence highlights the importance of examining associations at the within‐person level (e.g., Hygen et al, 2020; Lervåg, 2020; Masselink et al, 2018), as these are fundamental to provide knowledge that can more directly guide intervention and prevention efforts. To our knowledge, only Lee and Vaillancourt (2019) examined both the between‐ and within‐person effects of peer victimization on somatic symptoms.…”

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Disentangling the effects of peer status and peer victimization on perceived physical health in adolescence

Bruine

Denissen

Giletta

2022

Journal of Adolescence

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Introduction: Although exposure to peer victimization during adolescence has been linked to poorer (perceived) physical health, little is known about how multiple peer stressors may independently and conjointly be related with adolescent physical health outcomes. The current study investigated the unique, interactive, and cumulative effects of peer victimization and two types of peer status (i.e., peer preference and peer popularity) on adolescent perceived physical health, while separating between-and within-person effects. Methods: Two hundred and thirty-three adolescents (M age = 12.7 years; 47.2% females) enrolled in two secondary schools in the Netherlands completed self-report measures and sociometric nominations of peer status four times, every 6 months, during the first 2 years of secondary school. Results: Multilevel analysis showed that adolescents who reported higher levels of peer victimization than their peers also reported more perceived physical health problems. Moreover, when adolescents were exposed to higher levels of peer victimization (as compared with their own average levels), they also reported poorer perceived physical health (as compared with their own average levels). No main or interactive effects of peer status were found and the effect of a cumulative peer stress score emerged to be driven by peer victimization. Conclusions: Findings revealed both between-and within-person effects of peer victimization on perceived physical health, suggesting that peer victimization may be the most salient peer stressor to affect physical health outcomes in adolescence.

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Disentangling the effects of peer status and peer victimization on perceived physical health in adolescence

Bruine

Denissen

Giletta

2022

Journal of Adolescence

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“…In this way, the reciprocal effects between peer problems and NSSI were examined at the within‐person level and referred to intra‐personal deviations from individuals’ own expected levels, allowing us to know whether changes in adolescents’ own NSSI were related to subsequent deviations in their own peer problems, and vice versa. Notably, to date these models offer the closest possible approximation to identify “causal effects” using observational data (Lervåg, 2020 ).…”

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Reciprocal associations between peer problems and non‐suicidal self‐injury throughout adolescence

Luca

Giletta

Menesini

et al. 2022

Child Psychology Psychiatry

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Background: Peer problems have emerged as important predictors of Non-Suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) development during adolescence. However, the possibility that adolescents who engage in NSSI may, in turn, be at increased risk for experiencing difficulties with their peers has rarely been examined. This study investigated the reciprocal associations between peer problems (e.g. peer victimization, friendship stress and loneliness) and NSSI throughout adolescence, distinguishing between-and within-person effects. Method: Participants were 866 adolescents (54.5% females; M age = 13.12 years, SD = 0.78), who took part in six waves of data collection. Adolescents completed self-report measures of NSSI, friendship stress and loneliness and they took part in a peer nomination procedure to assess peer victimization. Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models (RI-CLPMs) were used to estimate within-person crosslagged effects between each peer problem and NSSI from Grade 7 to 12. Results: After accounting for between-person associations between peer problems and NSSI, results indicated that higher-than-usual levels of NSSI predicted higher-than-usual levels of adolescents' own friendship stress, loneliness and peer victimization at the subsequent time point. Yet, sensitivity analyses revealed that most of these effects were strongly attenuated and explained by within-person fluctuations in depressive symptoms. No within-person cross-lagged effects from peer problems to NSSI were found. Conclusions: Findings highlight that the associations between peer problems (i.e. friendship stress, loneliness) and NSSI may be largely explained by shared underlying factors; yet, some evidence also suggests that NSSI engagement may increase adolescents' risk to experience difficulties in the relationships with their peers, in part via increases in depressive symptoms.

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“…In the present study, we focus on the predisposition and scar explanations for the relation between depressive symptoms and the Big Five personality traits in adolescence. From a methodological standpoint, when examining longitudinal predictions as we aim to do in this study, several developmentalists recommend statistical methods that distinguish between-and within-person information (e.g., Hamaker et al, 2015;Hamaker et al, 2020;Lervåg, 2020). We argue that the predisposition and scar models are indeed within-person questions of nature (see Hamaker et al, 2020, for a conceptual discussion).…”

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“…However, the cross-lagged paths in CLPM represent a conflation of between-person and within-person information, which makes interpretation challenging (Berry & Willoughby, 2017). Moreover, because time-invariant betweenperson effects can confound the estimates of cross-lagged parameters, the use of CLPM to examine developmental questions, has been advised against (see, e.g., Lervåg, 2020).…”

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Depression and Personality Traits Across Adolescence—Within-Person Analyses of a Birth Cohort

Morken,

Wichstrøm,

Steinsbekk

et al. 2024

Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol

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Depressive symptoms and personality traits covary in adolescents, but our understanding of the nature of this relation is limited. Whereas a predisposition explanation posits that specific personality traits increase the vulnerability for developing depression, a scar explanation proposes that depression may alter premorbid personality. Attempts to test these explanatory models have relied on analyses that conflate within-person changes and between-person differences, which limits the implications that can be drawn. Moreover, research on the early adolescent years is lacking. The present study therefore examined within-person associations between depressive symptoms and Big Five personality traits across ages 10 to 16. Children (n = 817; 49.9% boys) and parents from two birth cohorts in Trondheim, Norway, were assessed biennially with clinical interviews capturing symptoms of major depressive disorder and dysthymia, and self-reported Big Five personality traits. Analyses were conducted using a random intercept cross-lagged panel model, which accounts for all unmeasured time-invariant confounding effects. Increased Neuroticism predicted an increased number of depressive symptoms—and increased depressive symptoms predicted increased Neuroticism—across ages 10 to 14. Moreover, increased depressive symptoms forecast reduced Extraversion across ages 10 to 16, and reduced Conscientiousness from ages 12 to 14. Increases in Neuroticism may contribute to the development of depressive symptoms—in line with the predisposition model. As regards the scar model, depression may have an even wider impact on personality traits: increasing Neuroticism and reducing Extraversion and Conscientiousness. These effects may already be present in the earliest adolescent years.

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Editorial: Some roads less travelled—different routes to understanding the causes of child psychopathology

Cited by 6 publications

References 11 publications

Disentangling the effects of peer status and peer victimization on perceived physical health in adolescence

Disentangling the effects of peer status and peer victimization on perceived physical health in adolescence

Reciprocal associations between peer problems and non‐suicidal self‐injury throughout adolescence

Depression and Personality Traits Across Adolescence—Within-Person Analyses of a Birth Cohort

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