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TY - JOUR
T1 - Does emotion dysregulation mediate the association between ADHD symptoms and internalizing problems?
T2 - A longitudinal within-person analysis in a large population-representative study
AU - Antony, Evelyn Mary-Ann
AU - Pihlajamäki, Milla
AU - Speyer, Lydia Gabriela
AU - Murray, Aja Louise
PY - 2022/12/31
Y1 - 2022/12/31
N2 - BACKGROUND: Previous research has suggested that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms commonly show emotion dysregulation difficulties. These difficulties may partly explain the strong tendency for internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression to co-occur with ADHD symptoms. However, no study has yet provided a longitudinal analysis of the within-person links between ADHD symptoms, emotion dysregulation, and internalizing problems necessary to examine this hypothesis from a developmental perspective.METHODS: We used data from the age 3, 5, and 7 waves of the large UK population-representative Millennium Cohort Study (n = 9,619, 4,885 males) and fit gender-stratified autoregressive latent trajectory models with structured residuals (ALT-SR) to disaggregate within- and between-person relations between ADHD symptom, emotion dysregulation, and internalizing problem symptoms.RESULTS: We found that emotion dysregulation significantly mediated the longitudinal within-person association between ADHD symptoms and internalizing problems.CONCLUSIONS: Results underline the promise of targeting emotion dysregulation as a means of preventing internalizing problems co-occurring with ADHD symptoms.
AB - BACKGROUND: Previous research has suggested that children with attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) symptoms commonly show emotion dysregulation difficulties. These difficulties may partly explain the strong tendency for internalizing problems such as anxiety and depression to co-occur with ADHD symptoms. However, no study has yet provided a longitudinal analysis of the within-person links between ADHD symptoms, emotion dysregulation, and internalizing problems necessary to examine this hypothesis from a developmental perspective.METHODS: We used data from the age 3, 5, and 7 waves of the large UK population-representative Millennium Cohort Study (n = 9,619, 4,885 males) and fit gender-stratified autoregressive latent trajectory models with structured residuals (ALT-SR) to disaggregate within- and between-person relations between ADHD symptom, emotion dysregulation, and internalizing problem symptoms.RESULTS: We found that emotion dysregulation significantly mediated the longitudinal within-person association between ADHD symptoms and internalizing problems.CONCLUSIONS: Results underline the promise of targeting emotion dysregulation as a means of preventing internalizing problems co-occurring with ADHD symptoms.
KW - Child
KW - Male
KW - Humans
KW - Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity/complications
KW - Cohort Studies
KW - Anxiety/epidemiology
KW - Anxiety Disorders
KW - Interpersonal Relations
U2 - 10.1111/jcpp.13624
DO - 10.1111/jcpp.13624
M3 - Journal article
C2 - 35484998
VL - 63
SP - 1583
EP - 1590
JO - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
JF - Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry
SN - 0021-9630
IS - 12
ER -