Social Anxiety-Impulsivity Subgroups and Links to Later Emotional Adjustment in Adolescence: A Latent Transition Analysis

A growing body of research has acknowledged the heterogeneity of subclinical social anxiety, identifying a subgroup of individuals who exhibit high levels of impulsivity. In a sample of Swedish early adolescents ( N = 2,509, Mage = 13.64; 52.8% girls), we conducted latent transition analyses (LTA) to identify four classes of subclinical social anxiety-impulsivity across three time points. We identified a Low Social Anxiety-Low Impulsivity class, as well as a High Anxiety-High Impulsivity class for girls and boys, which had high levels of Time-4 internalizing problems. The latter class was less stable but larger for boys. There was also a more typical High Anxiety-Low Impulsivity class for both genders. Nevertheless, Low Anxiety-High Impulsivity girls and boys fared the worst in terms of both internalizing and externalizing problems later on. To our knowledge, this is the first study to adopt an LTA framework to investigate trajectories of early adolescent social anxiety-impulsivity over time.

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Early adolescent psychological adaptation differences by stress-coping profiles: a latent transition analysis

Anxiety Stress & Coping ◽

10.1080/10615806.2021.1980782 ◽

2021 ◽

pp. 1-18

Author(s):

Kyoko Amai ◽

Daiki Hojo

Keyword(s):

Psychological Adaptation ◽

Latent Transition Analysis ◽

Early Adolescent ◽

Stress Coping ◽

Transition Analysis ◽

Latent Transition

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Role of temperament in early adolescent pure and co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems using a bifactor model: Moderation by parenting and gender

Development and Psychopathology ◽

10.1017/s0954579415001224 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 28 (4pt2) ◽

pp. 1487-1504 ◽

Cited By ~ 13

Author(s):

Frances L. Wang ◽

Nancy Eisenberg ◽

Carlos Valiente ◽

Tracy L. Spinrad

Keyword(s):

Problem Behaviors ◽

Internalizing Problems ◽

Externalizing Problems ◽

Effortful Control ◽

Early Adolescents ◽

Early Adolescent ◽

Emotional Expressivity ◽

Internalizing And Externalizing Problems ◽

Externalizing And Internalizing Problems ◽

Internalizing And Externalizing

AbstractWe contribute to the literature on the relations of temperament to externalizing and internalizing problems by considering parental emotional expressivity and child gender as moderators of such relations and examining prediction of pure and co-occurring problem behaviors during early to middle adolescence using bifactor models (which provide unique and continuous factors for pure and co-occurring internalizing and externalizing problems). Parents and teachers reported on children's (4.5- to 8-year-olds; N = 214) and early adolescents’ (6 years later; N = 168) effortful control, impulsivity, anger, sadness, and problem behaviors. Parental emotional expressivity was measured observationally and with parents’ self-reports. Early-adolescents’ pure externalizing and co-occurring problems shared childhood and/or early-adolescent risk factors of low effortful control, high impulsivity, and high anger. Lower childhood and early-adolescent impulsivity and higher early-adolescent sadness predicted early-adolescents’ pure internalizing. Childhood positive parental emotional expressivity more consistently related to early-adolescents’ lower pure externalizing compared to co-occurring problems and pure internalizing. Lower effortful control predicted changes in externalizing (pure and co-occurring) over 6 years, but only when parental positive expressivity was low. Higher impulsivity predicted co-occurring problems only for boys. Findings highlight the probable complex developmental pathways to adolescent pure and co-occurring externalizing and internalizing problems.

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The Effects of a Family Systems Intervention on Co-Occurring Internalizing and Externalizing Behaviors of Children with Substance Abusing Mothers: A Latent Transition Analysis

Journal of Marital and Family Therapy ◽

10.1111/jmft.12277 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 44 (4) ◽

pp. 687-701 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Jing Zhang ◽

Natasha Slesnick

Keyword(s):

Family Systems ◽

Externalizing Behaviors ◽

Latent Transition Analysis ◽

Substance Abusing ◽

Transition Analysis ◽

Internalizing And Externalizing Behaviors ◽

Systems Intervention ◽

Latent Transition ◽

Internalizing And Externalizing

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Internalizing and externalizing disorders in childhood and adolescence: A latent transition analysis using ALSPAC data

Comprehensive Psychiatry ◽

10.1016/j.comppsych.2017.03.003 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 75 ◽

pp. 75-84 ◽

Cited By ~ 18

Author(s):

Eoin McElroy ◽

Mark Shevlin ◽

Jamie Murphy

Keyword(s):

Externalizing Disorders ◽

Latent Transition Analysis ◽

Childhood And Adolescence ◽

Transition Analysis ◽

Latent Transition ◽

Internalizing And Externalizing

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The Development of Co-Occurrent Anxiety and Externalizing Problems from Early Childhood: a Latent Transition Analysis Approach

Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology ◽

10.1007/s10802-021-00865-2 ◽

2021 ◽

Author(s):

Aimé Isdahl-Troye ◽

Paula Villar ◽

Beatriz Domínguez-Álvarez ◽

Estrella Romero ◽

Kirby Deater-Deckard

Keyword(s):

Early Childhood ◽

Externalizing Problems ◽

Community Sample ◽

Latent Transition Analysis ◽

Transition Analysis ◽

Developmental Patterns ◽

Preventative Intervention ◽

Behavioral Expression ◽

Latent Transition ◽

Longitudinal Association

AbstractResearch into co-occurrent internalizing and externalizing problems during childhood is flourishing. In particular, investigation on the association between anxiety and externalizing problems has yielded mixed findings, focused mainly on the issue of which problem might precede the other, and what role anxiety plays with respect to externalizing problems. Relatively little attention has been paid to the developmental patterns of these behaviors from early childhood, despite the potential of such knowledge to fully delineate etiological models of co-occurrence. This study aimed to examine the longitudinal association of anxiety and externalizing problems in a community sample of preschoolers (ELISA Project; N = 2,341; 48.2% girls), by identifying empirically derived profiles and then describing their change and stability through the use of Latent Transition Analysis. Gender differences were explored. Four different profiles were identified: “typically developing”, “mainly anxious”, “modestly externalizing” and “co-occurrent”. Membership in these profile groups showed high stability over a two-year period. However, children in the “co-occurrent” profile group were the most likely to show changes, predominantly towards “modestly externalizing”. Furthermore, a significant gender difference for transitions towards the “co-occurrent” profile group was found, with girls showing less likelihood of being assigned to such profile. These findings show that it is possible to identify an early persistent course of co-occurrent anxiety and externalizing problems, as well as observe changes in co-occurrence towards a simpler externalizing behavioral expression. Further research should explore predictors of group membership and changes in membership, that are malleable and therefore open to preventative intervention.

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