The dynamics of psychological attributes and symptomatic comorbidity of depression in children and adolescents

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Title: The dynamics of psychological attributes and symptomatic comorbidity of depression in children and adolescents
Authors: Milagros Ocalin Sánchez Hernández, Francisco Pablo Holgado Tello, Miguel Ángel Carrasco Ortíz
Source: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
Publisher Information: Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2023.
Publication Year: 2023
Subject Terms: Adolescent, Personality Data, Cognitive Neuroscience, Clinical psychology, Social Sciences, Poison control, Experimental and Cognitive Psychology, Comorbidity, Analysis of Brain Functional Connectivity Networks, Anxiety, Symptom Networks, FOS: Mathematics, Humans, Network Analysis of Psychopathology and Mental Disorders, Psychology, Centrality, Child, Depression Symptoms, Psychiatry, Emotion Dynamics, Psychopathology, Depression, Research, Emotion Regulation and Psychopathology in Children and Adolescents, Life Sciences, 3. Good health, Aggression, FOS: Psychology, Clinical Psychology, Environmental health, Combinatorics, Medicine, Mathematics, Neuroscience
Description: Purpose This investigation aimed to explore attribute dynamics and symptomatic comorbidity of depression with internalizing, externalizing, and other personal–contextual problems in children and adolescents from a network analysis. Methods We tested an attribute network of regularized partial correlations, standard and alternative centrality measures, and comorbidity bridge symptoms according to centrality bridge measures. Results Regularized partial correlation network and a centrality measures graph shown the prominent position of social problems and anxiety–depression. Minimum spanning tree (MST) found a hierarchical dynamics between attributes where mixed anxiety–depression was identified as the core and the other attributes were hierarchically connected to it by being positioned in six branches that are differentiated according to their theoretical contents. The most central connections are established with the attributes of their own community or theoretical groups, and 37 bridge symptoms were identified in all networks. Conclusions A significant role of mixed anxiety depression as an activator and intermediary of psychopathologies was supported as a central attribute of internalizing problems. Aggressive behavior as part of the broad externalizing dimension was one of the constructs that most intensively activate the network, and social problems were also distinguished as a relevant factor not only in terms of connections and central attributes but also in terms of bridge symptoms and comorbidity. This framework extends to the study of symptomatic “comorbidity.”
Document Type: Article
Other literature type
Language: English
ISSN: 1433-9285
0933-7954
DOI: 10.1007/s00127-023-02532-x
DOI: 10.60692/dxbba-0td88
DOI: 10.60692/axspb-tmd76
Access URL: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/37477729
Rights: CC BY
Accession Number: edsair.doi.dedup.....e3d1a4fc57dafc93024852fd318d0fee
Database: OpenAIRE
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ISSN:14339285
09337954
DOI:10.1007/s00127-023-02532-x