Children of mothers with BPD had significantly
more general psychopathology.
Despite high rates of improvement in patients with BED in terms of binge eating, specific eating disorder characteristics, and
more general psychopathology, effective methods for producing longer - term weight loss remain elusive.8
Not exact matches
By objective measures, our young people are
more anxious,
more depressed, and have
more psychopathology in
general than students did a few decades ago.
Psychotic symptoms occur
more frequently in the
general population than psychotic disorder and index risk for
psychopathology.
Moreover,
psychopathology is not very frequent in young samples from the
general population, so the very age of our sample could have affected the emergence of
more associations.
Although the secure vs. insecure attachment distinction has some predictive validity, disorganized attachment has far better documented links with specific types of
psychopathology than do other types of insecurity.4, 9 Still, much less is understood about the mechanisms through which disorganized attachment affects the expression of
psychopathology in the child, and whether it is a specific contributor or a
more general marker for
psychopathology in
general.
Both AHII groups were
more likely to have attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), oppositional defiant disorder, and conduct disorder than control children;
more symptoms of
general psychopathology; greater social skills deficits;
more parental problems; and lower levels of academic achievement skills.
We studied a very young sample of the
general population, and
psychopathology is not very frequent in community samples; this could have affected the emergence of
more associations.
However, our findings are consistent with the notion of a
general emotion dysregulation factor (Silk et al. 2003; Steinberg and Avenevoli 2000), and are in line with findings that most forms of
psychopathology include dysregulation in
more than one discrete emotion.
In sum, results of the present study imply that when studying the emotional underpinnings of (internalizing)
psychopathology, researchers may want to focus less on the specific emotions, and
more on the
general form the dysregulation takes, as indicated by high levels of negative, and low levels of positive emotions, or highly variable emotions.