Sentences with phrase «greater internalizing symptoms»

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A substantial body of research indicates that regardless of race and age, female offenders have higher rates of mental health problems, both internalizing and externalizing, than male offenders.19 In a study of serious «deep - end» offenders, females exhibited both more externalizing problems and more internalizing problems than males.20 Moreover, a recent study using common measures and a demographically matched sample of community and detained youth found that gender differences were greater among detained youth than among community youth, with detained girls having more symptoms of mental illness than would be predicted on the basis of gender or setting alone.21

As a result, they tend to spend more time onlooking (watching other children without joining) and hovering on the edge of social groups.8, 11 There is some evidence to suggest that young depressive children also experience social impairment.12 For example, children who display greater depressive symptoms are more likely to be rejected by peers.10 Moreover, deficits in social skills (e.g., social participation, leadership) and peer victimization predict depressive symptoms in childhood.13, 14 There is also substantial longitudinal evidence linking social withdrawal in childhood with the later development of more significant internalizing problems.15, 16,17 For example, Katz and colleagues18 followed over 700 children from early childhood to young adulthood and described a pathway linking social withdrawal at age 5 years — to social difficulties with peers at age 15 years — to diagnoses of depression at age 20 years.

Participants in both conditions experienced reductions in posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and depression symptoms, although greater reductions were found for adolescents in the RRFT condition with regard to parent - reported PTSD, as well as adolescent - reported depression and internalizing symptoms.

In general, the child characteristics that were significant predictors of treatment outcomes followed a similar pattern to that for the parent characteristics, with children showing poorer initial functioning showing greater gains with treatment (i.e., more internalizing symptoms, more temperamental difficulty, greater functional impairment), but the children with less severe initial problems showing lower levels of ODD - related symptoms at each trial.

For internalizing symptoms, the relatively greater improvements for subjects given combined treatment are particularly noteworthy, as none of our treatments were designed to address this domain specifically.

Differences in frequency of sexual activity with friends and acquaintances were associated with greater internalizing and externalizing symptoms as well as lower self - esteem.

Gender differences in mental health symptoms have been traditionally reported in the general population of adolescents, with the prevalence of internalizing symptoms (i.e., depression, anxiety) greater in adolescent girls (Birmaher et al., 1996) and the prevalence of externalizing symptoms (i.e., aggression, conduct problems) greater in boys (Dekovic, Buist, & Reitz, 2004; Leadbeater, Kuperminc, Blatt, & Hertzog, 1999).

Conversely, severity predicted greater Reliable Change in parent reported internalizing and externalizing symptoms, and child reported depressive symptoms.

In line with previous research on the disadvantage of the incongruence of prenatal and postnatal environments on early child development [25], we hypothesized that children whose mothers had elevated postnatal maternal depressive symptoms when compared to that during pregnancy may show greater atypical frontal EEG activity and frontal functional connectivity and greater internalizing and externalizing behavioral problems.

We found that securely attached adolescents experienced greater reduction in internalizing symptoms from admission to discharge, even when controlling for length of stay.

Greater severity of maternal depressive symptoms independently predicted higher externalizing and internalizing scores at 24 months of age, after adjusting for maternal ethnicity and prenatal smoke exposure (Table 2).