Early childhood screen time and psychopathology in a Portuguese Sample

Childhood abuse and lifetime psychopathology in a community sample.

OBJECTIVE The authors assessed lifetime psychopathology in a general population sample and compared the rates of five psychiatric disorder categories between those who reported a childhood history of either physical or sexual abuse and those who did not. METHOD A modified version of the Composite International Diagnostic Interview and a self-completed questionnaire on child abuse were adminis...

Early childhood predictors of adult psychopathology.

This paper considers the relationship between experience and behavioral profiles during the first 4 years of life and later psychopathology by examining the results of prospective longitudinal studies. The review revealed modest associations. The most consistent findings imply that an extreme degree of impulsivity in preschool children predicts adolescent delinquency, and that severe neuromotor...

Childhood Victimization: EARLY Adversity, LATER Psychopathology

Early menarche and childhood adversities in a nationally representative sample

BACKGROUND Epidemiological evidence suggests that early menarche, defined as onset of menses at age 11 or earlier, has increased in prevalence in recent birth cohorts and is associated with multiple poor medical and mental health outcomes in adulthood. There is evidence that childhood adversities occurring prior to menarche contribute to early menarche. METHODS Data collected in face-to-face ...

Attachment and psychopathology in a community sample.

The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R (SCID-I) and the Adult Attachment Interview (AAI) were administered to 60 women participating in a study (n=226) of mother-child interaction. These women were not referred to the study for psychiatric care. The 60 women interviewed with the AAI were selected from the first 190 women who completed the SCID-I, so that 30 received a diagnosis and 30 ...