A cross-lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood / Geneviève MORNEAU-VAILLANCOURT in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64-11 (November 2023)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 64-11 (November 2023) . - p.1569-1582 Titre : A cross-lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Geneviève MORNEAU-VAILLANCOURT, Auteur ; Olakunle OGINNI, Auteur ; Elham ASSARY, Auteur ; Georgina KREBS, Auteur ; Ellen J. THOMPSON, Auteur ; Elisavet PALAIOLOGOU, Auteur ; Celestine LOCKHART, Auteur ; Louise ARSENEAULT, Auteur ; Thalia C. ELEY, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1569-1582 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Emotional symptoms, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms, are common during adolescence, often persist over time, and can precede the emergence of severe anxiety and depressive disorders. Studies suggest that a vicious cycle of reciprocal influences between emotional symptoms and interpersonal difficulties may explain why some adolescents suffer from persisting emotional symptoms. However, the role of different types of interpersonal difficulties, such as social isolation and peer victimisation, in these reciprocal associations is still unclear. In addition, the lack of longitudinal twin studies conducted on emotional symptoms during adolescence means that the genetic and environmental contributions to these relationships during adolescence remain unknown. Methods Participants (N=15,869) from the Twins Early Development Study completed self-reports of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation at 12, 16 and 21?years old. A phenotypic cross-lagged model examined reciprocal associations between variables over time, and a genetic extension of this model examined the aetiology of the relationships between variables at each timepoint. Results First, emotional symptoms were reciprocally and independently associated with both social isolation and peer victimisation over time, indicating that different forms of interpersonal difficulties uniquely contributed to emotional symptoms during adolescence and vice versa. Second, early peer victimisation predicted later emotional symptoms via social isolation in mid-adolescence, indicating that social isolation may constitute an intermediate pathway through which peer victimisation predicts longer-term emotional symptoms. Finally, individual differences in emotional symptoms were mostly accounted for by non-shared environmental factors at each timepoint, and both gene-environment and individual-specific environmental mechanisms were involved in the relationships between emotional symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. Conclusions Our study highlights the necessity to intervene early in adolescence to prevent the escalation of emotional symptoms over time and to consider social isolation and peer victimisation as important risk factors for the long-term persistence of emotional symptoms. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13847 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=512 [article] A cross-lagged twin study of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation from early adolescence to emerging adulthood [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Geneviève MORNEAU-VAILLANCOURT, Auteur ; Olakunle OGINNI, Auteur ; Elham ASSARY, Auteur ; Georgina KREBS, Auteur ; Ellen J. THOMPSON, Auteur ; Elisavet PALAIOLOGOU, Auteur ; Celestine LOCKHART, Auteur ; Louise ARSENEAULT, Auteur ; Thalia C. ELEY, Auteur . - p.1569-1582. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 64-11 (November 2023) . - p.1569-1582 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Emotional symptoms, such as anxiety and depressive symptoms, are common during adolescence, often persist over time, and can precede the emergence of severe anxiety and depressive disorders. Studies suggest that a vicious cycle of reciprocal influences between emotional symptoms and interpersonal difficulties may explain why some adolescents suffer from persisting emotional symptoms. However, the role of different types of interpersonal difficulties, such as social isolation and peer victimisation, in these reciprocal associations is still unclear. In addition, the lack of longitudinal twin studies conducted on emotional symptoms during adolescence means that the genetic and environmental contributions to these relationships during adolescence remain unknown. Methods Participants (N=15,869) from the Twins Early Development Study completed self-reports of emotional symptoms, social isolation and peer victimisation at 12, 16 and 21?years old. A phenotypic cross-lagged model examined reciprocal associations between variables over time, and a genetic extension of this model examined the aetiology of the relationships between variables at each timepoint. Results First, emotional symptoms were reciprocally and independently associated with both social isolation and peer victimisation over time, indicating that different forms of interpersonal difficulties uniquely contributed to emotional symptoms during adolescence and vice versa. Second, early peer victimisation predicted later emotional symptoms via social isolation in mid-adolescence, indicating that social isolation may constitute an intermediate pathway through which peer victimisation predicts longer-term emotional symptoms. Finally, individual differences in emotional symptoms were mostly accounted for by non-shared environmental factors at each timepoint, and both gene-environment and individual-specific environmental mechanisms were involved in the relationships between emotional symptoms and interpersonal difficulties. Conclusions Our study highlights the necessity to intervene early in adolescence to prevent the escalation of emotional symptoms over time and to consider social isolation and peer victimisation as important risk factors for the long-term persistence of emotional symptoms. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13847 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=512

A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents / Alicia J. PEEL in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64-2 (February 2023)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 64-2 (February 2023) . - p.289-298 Titre : A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Alicia J. PEEL, Auteur ; Olakunle OGINNI, Auteur ; Elham ASSARY, Auteur ; Georgina KREBS, Auteur ; Celestine LOCKHART, Auteur ; Thomas MCGREGOR, Auteur ; Elisavet PALAIOLOGOU, Auteur ; Angelica RONALD, Auteur ; Andrea DANESE, Auteur ; Thalia C. ELEY, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.289-298 Langues : Anglais (eng) Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Despite being considered a measure of environmental risk, reported life events are partly heritable. One mechanism that may contribute to this heritability is genetic influences on sensitivity, relating to how individuals process and interpret internal and external signals. The aim of this study was to explore the genetic and environmental overlap between self-reported life events and measures of sensitivity. Methods At age 17, 2,939 individuals from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) completed measures of anxiety sensitivity (Children's Anxiety Sensitivity Index), environmental sensitivity (Highly Sensitive Child Scale) and reported their experience of 20 recent life events. Using multivariate Cholesky decomposition models, we investigated the shared genetic and environmental influences on the associations between these measures of sensitivity and the number of reported life events, as well as both negative and positive ratings of life events. Results The majority of the associations between anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events were explained by shared genetic influences (60%-75%), with the remainder explained by nonshared environmental influences (25%-40%). Environmental sensitivity showed comparable genetic correlations with both negative and positive ratings of life events (rA = .21 and .15), anxiety sensitivity only showed a significant genetic correlation with negative ratings of life events (rA = .33). Approximately 10% of the genetic influences on reported life events were accounted for by influences shared with anxiety sensitivity and environmental sensitivity. Conclusion Differences in how individuals process the contextual aspects of the environment or interpret their own physical and emotional response to environmental stimuli may be one mechanism through which genetic liability influences the subjective experience of life events. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13725 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=492 [article] A multivariate genetic analysis of anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events in adolescents [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Alicia J. PEEL, Auteur ; Olakunle OGINNI, Auteur ; Elham ASSARY, Auteur ; Georgina KREBS, Auteur ; Celestine LOCKHART, Auteur ; Thomas MCGREGOR, Auteur ; Elisavet PALAIOLOGOU, Auteur ; Angelica RONALD, Auteur ; Andrea DANESE, Auteur ; Thalia C. ELEY, Auteur . - p.289-298. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 64-2 (February 2023) . - p.289-298 Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Background Despite being considered a measure of environmental risk, reported life events are partly heritable. One mechanism that may contribute to this heritability is genetic influences on sensitivity, relating to how individuals process and interpret internal and external signals. The aim of this study was to explore the genetic and environmental overlap between self-reported life events and measures of sensitivity. Methods At age 17, 2,939 individuals from the Twins Early Development Study (TEDS) completed measures of anxiety sensitivity (Children's Anxiety Sensitivity Index), environmental sensitivity (Highly Sensitive Child Scale) and reported their experience of 20 recent life events. Using multivariate Cholesky decomposition models, we investigated the shared genetic and environmental influences on the associations between these measures of sensitivity and the number of reported life events, as well as both negative and positive ratings of life events. Results The majority of the associations between anxiety sensitivity, environmental sensitivity and reported life events were explained by shared genetic influences (60%-75%), with the remainder explained by nonshared environmental influences (25%-40%). Environmental sensitivity showed comparable genetic correlations with both negative and positive ratings of life events (rA = .21 and .15), anxiety sensitivity only showed a significant genetic correlation with negative ratings of life events (rA = .33). Approximately 10% of the genetic influences on reported life events were accounted for by influences shared with anxiety sensitivity and environmental sensitivity. Conclusion Differences in how individuals process the contextual aspects of the environment or interpret their own physical and emotional response to environmental stimuli may be one mechanism through which genetic liability influences the subjective experience of life events. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13725 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=492

Practitioner Review: Differential susceptibility theory: might it help in understanding and treating mental health problems in youth? / Elham ASSARY in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry, 64-8 (August 2023)  

Public ISBD [article]  inJournal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 64-8 (August 2023) . - p.1104-1114 Titre : Practitioner Review: Differential susceptibility theory: might it help in understanding and treating mental health problems in youth? Type de document : Texte imprimé et/ou numérique Auteurs : Elham ASSARY, Auteur ; Georgina KREBS, Auteur ; Thalia C. ELEY, Auteur Article en page(s) : p.1104-1114 Langues : Anglais (eng) Mots-clés : Resilience  protective factors  life events  gene-environment interaction  developmental psychopathology Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Diathesis-stress models conceptualise individual differences in propensity for psychopathology as an interaction between environmental risk factors and intra-individual vulnerabilities. In contrast, the differential susceptibility theory and related frameworks view intra-individual differences as variations in sensitivity to the environments rather than merely vulnerability to them. Specifically, they suggest that more sensitive individuals are more affected by the quality of their context, whether positive or negative, than others who are less sensitive. Empirical research over the last two decades has found support for this notion in that greater sensitivity is associated with a greater risk of psychopathology in adverse contexts, but also with lower risk in positive environments. However, despite growing academic and public interest in this field, it is currently unclear to what extent the differential susceptibility model is relevant, or applicable, to clinical practice. The purpose of this review is to focus on the differential susceptibility theory as an alternative explanation of individual differences in mental health and examine its relevance in the treatment of mental health problems in young people. We provide an overview of differential susceptibility and related theories, and current relevant research in the field. We identify potential implications of differential susceptibility models for understanding and treating mental health problems in young people, whilst also highlighting important gaps in research that limit their application at present. Finally, we suggest directions for future research that will assist in the translation of differential susceptibility theories into clinical practice. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13801 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=508 [article] Practitioner Review: Differential susceptibility theory: might it help in understanding and treating mental health problems in youth? [Texte imprimé et/ou numérique] / Elham ASSARY, Auteur ; Georgina KREBS, Auteur ; Thalia C. ELEY, Auteur . - p.1104-1114. Langues : Anglais (eng) in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry > 64-8 (August 2023) . - p.1104-1114 Mots-clés : Resilience  protective factors  life events  gene-environment interaction  developmental psychopathology Index. décimale : PER Périodiques Résumé : Diathesis-stress models conceptualise individual differences in propensity for psychopathology as an interaction between environmental risk factors and intra-individual vulnerabilities. In contrast, the differential susceptibility theory and related frameworks view intra-individual differences as variations in sensitivity to the environments rather than merely vulnerability to them. Specifically, they suggest that more sensitive individuals are more affected by the quality of their context, whether positive or negative, than others who are less sensitive. Empirical research over the last two decades has found support for this notion in that greater sensitivity is associated with a greater risk of psychopathology in adverse contexts, but also with lower risk in positive environments. However, despite growing academic and public interest in this field, it is currently unclear to what extent the differential susceptibility model is relevant, or applicable, to clinical practice. The purpose of this review is to focus on the differential susceptibility theory as an alternative explanation of individual differences in mental health and examine its relevance in the treatment of mental health problems in young people. We provide an overview of differential susceptibility and related theories, and current relevant research in the field. We identify potential implications of differential susceptibility models for understanding and treating mental health problems in young people, whilst also highlighting important gaps in research that limit their application at present. Finally, we suggest directions for future research that will assist in the translation of differential susceptibility theories into clinical practice. En ligne : https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.13801 Permalink : https://www.cra-rhone-alpes.org/cid/opac_css/index.php?lvl=notice_display&id=508

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