Individual Differences in the Stability and Change of Childhood Depression: A Growth Mixture Model With Structured Residuals. Issue 4 (10th January 2021)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: Hawrilenko, Matt; Masyn, Katherine E.; Cerutti, Janine; Dunn, Erin C.
• Is Part Of: Child development. Volume 92:Issue 4(2021)
• Page Start: e343
• Page End: e363
• Publication Date: 2021-01-10
• Subjects: Child development -- Periodicals; Child psychology -- Periodicals; Child Development -- Periodicals; Child Development; Pediatrics -- Periodicals; Pedicatrics; 305.231
• DOI: 10.1111/cdev.13502
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 0009-3920

Abstract

Abstract : Studies of developmental trajectories of depression are important for understanding depression etiology. Existing studies have been limited by short time frames and no studies have explored a key factor: differential patterns of responding to life events. This article introduces a novel analytic technique, growth mixture modeling with structured residuals, to examine the course of youth depression in a large, prospective cohort ( N = 11, 641, ages 4–16.5, 96% White). Age‐specific critical points were identified at ages 8 and 13 where depression symptoms spiked for a minority of children. Most depression risk was due to dynamic responses to environmental events, drawn not from a small pool of persistently depressed children, but a larger pool of children who varied across higher and lower symptom levels.