Participants completed self - report measures of psychosocial functioning and semi-structured
diagnostic interviews during adolescence and young adulthood.
Not exact matches
Low family income
during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical
diagnostic interviews.7
Depression in fathers was assessed using the World Health Organization Composite International
Diagnostic Interview Short Form, a validated measure used to identify the presence of a major depressive episode within the previous year.24 Fathers were asked 2 stem questions: (1) «
During the past 12 months, has there ever been a time when you felt sad, blue, or depressed for 2 or more weeks in a row?»
In addition to the Autism
Diagnostic Interview - Revised that is mainly based on participants» behaviour
during their childhood, we also obtained the maternal - reported Social Responsiveness Scale to measure participants» behaviour at the time of experiments (Constantino, 2002).
Low family income
during the early childhood has been linked to comparatively less secure attachment, 4 higher levels of negative moods and inattention, 5 as well as lower levels of prosocial behaviour in children.2 The link between low family income and young children's problem behaviour has been replicated across several datasets with different outcome measures, including parental reports of externalizing and internalizing behaviours,1 - 3, 7 -9,11-12 teacher reports of preschool behavioural problems, 10 and assessments of children based on clinical
diagnostic interviews.7
Anxiety, disruptive, eating, mood, and substance use disorders were assessed
during adolescence and early adulthood using the
Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children.36 The parent and offspring versions of the
Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children were administered
during the adolescent
interviews because the use of multiple informants increases the reliability and validity of psychiatric diagnoses among adolescents.37, 38 Symptoms were considered present if reported by either informant.
Respondents provided sociodemographic and
diagnostic information, as well as an account of suicidal behaviours
during the
interviews.
All diagnoses were based on the DSM - IV criteria (American Psychiatric Association 1994) by the treating clinician
during an initial assessment with parents, using the
Diagnostic Interview Schedule for Children, Adolescents, and Parents (DISCAP; Holland and Dadds 1997).
Expressed emotions (EE) was assessed
during the
diagnostic interview (PACS) of the IMAGE - study, which was performed 6 years previous to the current study [49], using the scoring derived from Camberwell Family Interv
interview (PACS) of the IMAGE - study, which was performed 6 years previous to the current study [49], using the scoring derived from Camberwell Family
InterviewInterview [12].