Co-developmental Trajectories of Defiant/Headstrong, Irritability, and Prosocial Emotions from Preschool Age to Early Adolescence

This study ascertains how the proposed subtypes and specifiers of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) based on irritability and prosocial emotions co-develop and describes the clinical characteristics of the resultant classes. A sample of 488 community children was followed up from ages 3 to 12 year...

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Autores: Ezpeleta, Lourdes|||0000-0002-8957-083X, Penelo Werner, Eva|||0000-0001-6796-7660, Navarro, José-Blas|||0000-0001-5929-4224, Osa, Nuria de la|||0000-0003-4499-0942, Trepat, Esther|||0000-0003-4293-9078
Tipo de documento: artigo
Data de publicação:2021
País:España
Recursos:Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona
Repositório:Dipòsit Digital de Documents de la UAB
Idioma:inglês
OAI Identifier:oai:ddd.uab.cat:243827
Acesso em linha:https://ddd.uab.cat/record/243827
https://dx.doi.org/urn:doi:10.1007/s10578-021-01180-z
Access Level:Acceso aberto
Palavra-chave:Defiant/headstrong
Developmental trajectories
Irritability
Limited prosocial
Emotions
Oppositional defiant
Subtypes
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Resumo:This study ascertains how the proposed subtypes and specifiers of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) based on irritability and prosocial emotions co-develop and describes the clinical characteristics of the resultant classes. A sample of 488 community children was followed up from ages 3 to 12 years and assessed with categorical and dimensional measures answered by parents and teachers. Latent class growth analysis for three parallel processes (defiant/headstrong, irritability, and limited prosocial emotions [LPE]) identified a 4-class model with adequate entropy (.912) and posterior probabilities of class membership (≥ .921). Class 1 (n = 38, 7.9%) was made up of children with defiant/headstrong with chronic irritability and LPE. Class 2 (n = 128, 26.3%) was comprised of children with defiant/headstrong with chronic irritability and typical prosocial emotions. Class 3 (n = 101, 20.7%) clustered children with LPE without defiant/headstrong and without irritability. Class 4 (n = 220, 45.1%) included children with the lowest scores in all the processes. The classes were distinguishable and showed different clinical characteristics through development. These findings support the validity of ICD-11 ODD subtypes based on chronic irritability and may help to guide clinicians' decision-making regarding treating oppositionality in children.