Birth Order, Family Size, and Children's Mental Health

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1097-1098 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Touliatos ◽  
Byron W. Lindholm
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Behavior Problem ◽  
Significant Finding ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
White Children ◽  
Problem Checklist ◽  
Different Levels

This study examined the relationships of birth order and family size to psychological adjustment in native-born, white children ( N = 2,991) in Grades K-8, using the Behavior Problem Checklist. Multiple regression analyses of variance yielded two significant effects for conduct problems and socialized delinquency when different levels of birth order were considered individually and only one significant finding for socialized delinquency when the various family sizes were examined separately.

Behavior Problems of Children in Regular Classes and Those Diagnosed as Requiring Speech Therapy

1979 ◽  
Vol 49 (2) ◽  
pp. 459-463 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron W. Lindholm ◽  
John Touliatos
Keyword(s):  
Behavior Problems ◽  
Personality Disorders ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Behavior Problem ◽  
Speech Therapy ◽  
White Children ◽  
Problem Checklist ◽  
Regular Classes

2,991 white children in regular classes and 106 white children requiring speech therapy were compared on Quay's Behavior Problem Checklist. The former had fewer problems checked in areas such as personality disorders and inadequacy-immaturity than did the latter, as expected, although the amount of variance accounted for was small. The groups did not differ on conduct problems and socialized deliquency. A question was raised about variations in psychotic signs.

Behavior Patterns of Learning Disabled, Emotionally Disturbed, and Average Children

1969 ◽  
Vol 36 (2) ◽  
pp. 69-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeanne Mcrae Mccarthy ◽  
John Paraskevopoulos
Keyword(s):  
Problem Behavior ◽  
Behavior Problem ◽  
Emotionally Disturbed ◽  
Learning Disabled ◽  
Conduct Problem ◽  
Behavior Patterns ◽  
Disabled Children ◽  
Behavior Ratings ◽  
Problem Checklist ◽  
Different Levels

The assumption that children with learning disabilities can be differentiated from emotionally disturbed children in terms of observable social behaviors was systematically explored by means of the Behavior Problem Checklist. Areas of communality and uniqueness of emotionally disturbed and learning disabled children are pinpointed and compared with average children. The main behavior problem present in both groups, although at different levels, was conduct problem behavior. Ratings of the child's problem behavior may be one additional criterion to be considered in diagnosis and placement of these children.

Psychological Adjustment of Adopted and Nonadopted Children

1980 ◽  
Vol 46 (1) ◽  
pp. 307-310 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron W. Lindholm ◽  
John Touliatos
Keyword(s):  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Psychological Adjustment ◽  
Behavior Problem ◽  
Eighth Grade ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Problem Checklist

41 adopted and 2,991 nonadopted children were compared on a behavior problem checklist completed by teachers. Adopted youngsters exceeded their nonadopted peers in frequency of disorders, especially conduct problems but also personality problems and socialized delinquency. Incidence of personality problems increased for adopted children from kindergarten through eighth grade and increased and then declined for nonadopted children over the same period. Boys experienced more maladjustment than girls, and differences between the sexes were greater for adopted than nonadopted youngsters on conduct problems, personality problems, and socialized delinquency.

Comparison of Children in Regular and Special Education Classes on the Behavior Problem Checklist

1976 ◽  
Vol 38 (2) ◽  
pp. 451-458 ◽  
Author(s):  
Byron W. Lindholm ◽  
John Touliatos
Keyword(s):  
Special Education ◽  
Multiple Regression ◽  
Behavior Problem ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
General Information ◽  
Regression Analyses ◽  
American Children ◽  
Problem Checklist ◽  
Regular Classes

To establish the validity of the Behavior Problem Checklist, using the method of contrasted groups, 1,999 white and 192 Mexican-American children in regular classes and 192 white and 17 Mexican-American children in special education classes were tested. Teachers provided general information and checklist ratings. Multiple correlations and multiple regression analyses of variance were used. Children in regular classes had fewer problems on all four of the factors on the checklist than the children in special education classes. On the basis of these results and a review of previous research using the method of contrasted groups, it was concluded that all four of the factors on the checklist were valid.

Resolving the debate over birth order, family size, and intelligence.

2000 ◽  
Vol 55 (6) ◽  
pp. 599-612 ◽  
Author(s):  
Joseph Lee Rodgers ◽  
H. Harrington Cleveland ◽  
Edwin van den Oord ◽  
David C. Rowe
Keyword(s):  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size

Siblings and Illness

2011 ◽  
Vol 7 ◽  
Author(s):  
Leah Sawyer Vanderwerp
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Birth Order ◽  
Family Size ◽  
Multivariate Analyses ◽  
Social Role ◽  
Chronically Ill ◽  
Demographic Variables ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Mother And Child ◽  
Using Data

Using data from the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth-Mother and Child samples, I investigated the relationships among child and adolescent depressive symptoms, having a chronically ill sibling, and other child and familial demographic variables. From research on social support and social role transitions, with the Stress Process as a theoretical model, I hypothesized that children with chronically ill siblings experience more depressive symptoms. Specifically, I looked at age, gender, birth order and family size as potentially reducing the effect size of having a chronically ill sibling. Findings showed that having a chronically ill sibling is associated with demonstrating more depressive symptoms both in the bivariate and multivariate analyses. Although age, gender, birth order and family size do not interact significantly with having a chronically ill sibling in predicting depressive symptoms, they do present interesting findings about childhood depressive symptoms in general. Thus, the results of this study suggest specific and meaningful paths for future research.

Analysing Dynamic Change in Children’s Socio-Emotional Development using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire in a large UK Longitudinal Study

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lydia Gabriela Speyer ◽  
Anastasia Ushakova ◽  
Hildigunnur Anna Hall ◽  
Michelle Luciano ◽  
Bonnie Auyeung ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mental Health ◽  
Conduct Problems ◽  
Dynamic Change ◽  
Emotional Problems ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties Questionnaire ◽  
Mental Health Issue ◽  
Childhood And Adolescence ◽  
Peer Problems ◽  
Mental Health Difficulties ◽  
Strengths And Difficulties

Background: Most mental health difficulties have their onset during childhood and adolescence. Many children who suffer from one mental health issue also suffer from at least one comorbid disorder. Autoregressive latent trajectory models with structured residuals (ALT-SR) and multilevel graphical vector autoregression (GVAR) are recent complementary approaches that can help provide new insights into the reciprocal relationships between multiple mental health domains and advance the understanding of the development of comorbidities.Methods: This study uses ALT-SR and multilevel GVAR models to analyse the temporal, contemporaneous and between-person relationships between emotional problems, peer problems, conduct problems, hyperactivity/inattention and prosociality as measured by the parent-reported Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ) in 17,478 children taking part in the UK Millennium Cohort Study at ages 3, 5, 7, 11, 14 and 17 years. Results: Results from both the ALT-SR model and the multilevel GVAR model highlight that children’s strengths and difficulties in different domains of psychosocial functioning dynamically influence each other over- and within-time. The ALT-SR model highlighted that hyperactivity/inattention plays a central role in affecting other domains over developmental time while the GVAR model highlighted comparably strong bidirectional relationships between conduct problems and prosociality as well as between emotional problems and peer problems. Both models suggest that most domains are also related to each other over shorter timescales.Conclusion: This study highlights that mental health difficulties influence one another dynamically over time. As illustrated in the domains of the SDQ, these dynamic changes can be modelled using the complementary techniques of ALT-SR or GVAR models, each offering different insights into the nature of comorbidity.

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