Sex moderates the impact of birth weight on child externalizing psychopathology
| العنوان: | Sex moderates the impact of birth weight on child externalizing psychopathology |
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| المؤلفون: | Allison M. Momany, Jaclyn M. Kamradt, Josie M. Ullsperger, Joel T. Nigg, Alexis L. Elmore, Molly A. Nikolas |
| المصدر: | Journal of Abnormal Psychology. 126:244-256 |
| بيانات النشر: | American Psychological Association (APA), 2017. |
| سنة النشر: | 2017 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Adult, Conduct Disorder, Male, Adolescent, Child psychopathology, Birth weight, Gestational Age, Article, Developmental psychology, Young Adult, 03 medical and health sciences, Sex Factors, 0302 clinical medicine, mental disorders, medicine, Humans, Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder, 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences, Child, Biological Psychiatry, 05 social sciences, Confounding, Infant, Low Birth Weight, medicine.disease, Clinical Psychology, Psychiatry and Mental health, Low birth weight, Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity, Attention Deficit and Disruptive Behavior Disorders, Conduct disorder, Female, medicine.symptom, Psychology, 030217 neurology & neurosurgery, Developmental psychopathology, 050104 developmental & child psychology, Clinical psychology, Psychopathology |
| الوصف: | Low birth weight (LBW) has consistently been associated with childhood attention- deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), and a similar association has been found for childhood externalizing disorders, such as oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) and conduct disorder (CD), albeit to a lesser degree. Although the association between LBW and these disorders has been robustly replicated, few studies have adequately controlled for confounding variables, such as parental age at birth and prenatal tobacco use, examined the specificity of the risk of LBW for ADHD symptoms, or investigated potential nonlinear (i.e., quadratic) effects of birth weight. Additionally, the extent to which LBW confers risk for these disorders depending on childhood sex has rarely been examined. The current study examined associations between birth weight and ADHD, ODD, and CD symptom dimensions as well as the extent to which such associations are moderated by child sex, while also controlling for confounding variables. Significant interactions between sex and birth weight emerged across all analyses predicting ADHD and externalizing psychopathology, such that associations were stronger in males relative to females. Results remained when controlling for a number of confounds, including parental age, prenatal tobacco use, comorbid psychopathology, as well as other indicators of maternal and child health during the pre- and perinatal period. Both linear and quadratic associations emerged between birth weight and both hyperactivity and CD symptoms, whereas birth weight predicted inattention and ODD symptoms in a linear fashion. Future research should continue to investigate the impact of birth weight on ADHD and externalizing psychopathology, in particular the biological mechanisms underlying this association. |
| تدمد: | 1939-1846 0021-843X |
| URL الوصول: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::7b9f5cbf501607bbd7ee7240fa1bde6d https://doi.org/10.1037/abn0000238 |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الأكسشن: | edsair.doi.dedup.....7b9f5cbf501607bbd7ee7240fa1bde6d |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19391846 0021843X |
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