Toward an optimized assessment of adolescent psychopathology risk: Multilevel environmental profiles and child irritability as predictors

Source:

Yu,Q.,Hernandez,B.,Swineford,C.,Walker,N.,MacNeill,L.,Zhang,Y.,Wakschlag,L.S.,&LeeWiggins,J.L (2023).Towardanoptimizedassessmentofadolescentpsychopathologyrisk:Multilevelenvironmentalprofilesandchildirritabilityaspredictors.JCPPAdvances,e12180.https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.1218012of12-YUETAL.

Key points

• Distinct risk and resilience profiles primarily driven by parent and family characteristics were identified for all three major race/ethnicity groups.

• Risk and resilience profile membership in all race/ethnicity groups are predictive of psychopathology in adolescence.

• Early childhood irritability is predictive of adolescence psychopathology above and beyond environmental risk and resilience profiles.

• The findings can inform development of strategic assessment planning tools that prioritize information gathering in certain domains and including irritability as an efficient and robust risk indicator.