Stress, Cortisol, and Externalizing Behavior in Adolescent Males: An Examination in the Context of Multisystemic Therapy By Julia C. Schechter Aggression and delinquency are associated with an array of emotional, behavioral, and health problems (Loeber, Burke, Lahey, Winters, & Zera, 2000). Additionally, a multitude of variables are thought to lead to the development of externalizing disorders ...

OBJECTIVE The role of religion in mental illness remains understudied. Most prior investigations of this relationship have used measures of religiosity that do not reflect its complexity and/or have examined a small number of psychiatric outcomes. This study used data from a general population sample to clarify the dimensions of religiosity and the relationships of these dimensions to risk for ...

Children and adolescents with externalizing behavior disorders including attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) and conduct disorder (CD) often present with symptoms of comorbid internalizing psychopathology. However, few studies have examined central nervous system correlates of such comorbidity. We evaluated interactions between externalizing and internalizing symptoms in predicting ...

BACKGROUND Although numerous studies have examined the role of latent predispositions to internalizing and externalizing disorders in the structure of comorbidity among common mental disorders, none examined latent predispositions in predicting development of comorbidity. METHODS A novel method was used to study the role of latent variables in the development of comorbidity among lifetime DSM...

Associations between histories of family disruption (residential moves and separations from parent figures) and adolescent adjustment (including educational, internalizing, externalizing, and sexual behavior outcomes) were examined in a random sample of 267 African American girls from 3 urban poverty neighborhoods. Higher numbers of residential moves and parental separations significantly predi...

background: internalizing and externalizing disorders in children and adolescents have been known in many countries. this study was performed to find out effect of culture on emotion regulation and its aim was to identify relationship between emotion regulation and psychopathology in children. methods:   participants were 269 children from iran and germany who voluntarily agreed to participate....

BACKGROUND Borderline personality disorder (BPD) shows high levels of co-morbidity with an array of psychiatric disorders. The meaning and causes of this co-morbidity are not fully understood. Our objective was to investigate and clarify the complex co-morbidity of BPD by integrating it into the structure of common mental disorders. METHOD We conducted exploratory and confirmatory factor anal...

Parental psychopathology is associated with increased psychosocial maladjustment in adolescents. We examined, from a psychosocial perspective, the association between parental psychological distress and psychosocial maladjustment in adolescents and assessed the mediating role of psychosocial covariates. This is a cross-sectional survey and the setting include representative sample of Quebec ado...

AIMS To examine the prospective relationships between childhood externalizing and internalizing disorders and substance use in early adolescence. DESIGN Longitudinal, community-based study of twins (aged 11 at intake; aged 14 at follow-up). SETTING AND PARTICIPANTS The sample was composed of twins participating in the Minnesota Twin Family Study, an epidemiological sample of twins and their...

Demand for treatment for problems related to the use of video games have increased significantly in adolescents. Most cases have a comorbid mental disorder that jeopardises both pathologies. The aim of this study is to describe profiles of adolescents with Internet Gaming Disorder (IGD) according to comorbidity and analyze treatment response at 3 and 6 months. A sample of 86 patients which cons...