On defining irritability and its relationship to affective traits and social interpretations

Deveney, Christen M.; Stoddard, Joel; Evans, Robert; Chavez, Goretty; Harney, M. K.; Wulff, Rachel A.

doi:10.1016/j.paid.2019.02.031

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“…However, it requires a nonlinear fit. The balance and indifference points are typically highly correlated (Deveney et al, 2019;Stoddard et al, 2016).…”

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confidence: 99%

Interpretation bias training for bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial

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Stoddard

Penton-Voak

et al. 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…However, it requires a nonlinear fit. The balance and indifference points are typically highly correlated (Deveney et al, 2019;Stoddard et al, 2016).…”

Section: Beck Depression Inventory IImentioning

confidence: 99%

Interpretation bias training for bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial

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Stoddard

Penton-Voak

et al. 2021

Journal of Affective Disorders

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“…The mean parental irritability score prior to the pandemic was 15.91 (SD = 4.87); at the beginning of the pandemic, the mean irritability score was 17.60 (SD = 4.69). While clinical cutoffs have not been established for the BITe, these scores were higher than the average seen in a comparable community sample ( Deveney et al, 2019 ). Again, a paired sample t -test indicated a significant increase in irritability symptoms, t (385) = 5.72, p < .001.…”

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confidence: 76%

“…The BITe ( Holtzman et al, 2015 ) is a five-item self-report of irritable mood in adults on a six-point scale, ranging from never (=1) to always (=5). Clinical cutoffs have not been established for the BITe, but a comparable community sample reported an average BITe score of 11.73 (SD = 5.99; Deveney et al, 2019 ). For the current study, parents were asked to report on their irritability symptoms both before the stay-at-home period and in the past 2 weeks.…”

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Covariance Between Parent and Child Symptoms Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

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Evans

Aaron

et al. 2021

Journal of Pediatric Psychology

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Objective COVID-19 has had unprecedented effects on American families, including increases in depression, anxiety, and irritability for both parents and children. While parents and children influence each other’s psychological functioning during non-disaster times, this effect may be amplified during times of disaster. The current study investigated how COVID-19 influenced covariance of depressive symptoms and irritability in children and their parents. Methods Three hundred and ninety-one parents and their 8- to 17-year-old children ( M age = 10.68 years old, 70% male, 86% White) from a large sample of children and parents, primarily from Southeastern Louisiana, completed self-report measures of depression and irritability approximately 6 weeks into the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as providing retrospective reports of their symptoms prior to the pandemic. Actor–partner interdependence models were used to measure the reciprocal effects of parent symptoms on children and vice versa, both before and during the pandemic. Results Actor effects in both the depressive symptoms and irritability models suggested that pre-COVID-19 depressive symptoms and irritability were robust predictors of early-COVID-19 depressive symptoms and irritability for both parents and children. Partner effects were also detected in the irritability model, in that parental irritability prior to COVID-19 was associated with decreased child irritability during the pandemic. Both before and during the pandemic, associations between parent and child depressive symptoms and irritability scores were weaker in families evidencing greater dysfunction. Conclusions Results suggest that COVID-19-related stress is associated with increases in both parent and child symptomatology, and that family relationships likely influence associations between these symptoms.

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“…Irritable children were found to be more sensitive to threatening and frustrating stimuli and their tolerance to frustration is lower compared to peers (Caprara et al, 1985). They are more likely to feel offended and tend to interpret neutral stimuli more negative and hostile (Deveney et al, 2019;Marks et al, 2021).…”

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confidence: 93%

A cross-sectional study of children’s irritability determining the links between their ego- resilience and symptoms of anxiety and depression

Busch¹,

Schettgen²,

Krey³

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Anxiety and depression are among the disorders with highest prevalence during childhood. Previous research has substantiated that individual’s high irritability promotes the occurrence of associated symptoms while high ego-resilience protects against them. So far, little is known about how ego-resilience could engage with irritability for symptom development. We investigated interactional effects of irritability with ego-resilience on symptoms of anxiety and depression. Overall, 228 children from a combined clinical and nonclinical sample aged 7 to 18 years participated in a cross-sectional self-report survey. They reported on internalizing symptoms, ego-resilience, and irritability. A moderated hierarchical regression analysis showed that ego-resilience was negatively associated with symptoms of anxiety and depression, and that irritability was positively related to heightened symptom levels. Ego-resilience and irritability were overall stronger associated with symptoms of depression than anxiety. Irritability moderated the association between ego-resilience and depression such that effects of ego-resilience were stronger among highly irritable participants. Our results suggest that highly irritable children could benefit to a larger extent from ego-resilience capacities, possibly yielding a protective role of irritability for buffering internalizing symptoms. Our findings highlight differential psychopathological mechanisms that underlie depression and anxiety. They also pinpoint to a dynamic systems approach when assessing determinants of psychopathology which are traditionally interpreted as either risk-increasing or protective. Furthering research that considers irritability within environmental/biological sensitivity frameworks could help better understanding our findings.

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On defining irritability and its relationship to affective traits and social interpretations

Cited by 35 publications

References 48 publications

Interpretation bias training for bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial

Interpretation bias training for bipolar disorder: A randomized controlled trial

Covariance Between Parent and Child Symptoms Before and During the COVID-19 Pandemic

A cross-sectional study of children’s irritability determining the links between their ego- resilience and symptoms of anxiety and depression

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