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Normative development of the Child Behavior Checklist Dysregulation Profile from early childhood to adolescence: Associations with personality pathology

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  21 June 2017

Marike H. F. Deutz ,
Helen G. M. Vossen ,
Amaranta D. De Haan ,
Maja Deković ,
Anneloes L. Van Baar  and
Peter Prinzie
Marike H. F. Deutz*
Affiliation:
Utrecht University
Helen G. M. Vossen
Affiliation:
Utrecht University
Amaranta D. De Haan
Affiliation:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
Maja Deković
Affiliation:
Utrecht University
Anneloes L. Van Baar
Affiliation:
Utrecht University
Peter Prinzie
Affiliation:
Erasmus University Rotterdam
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Marike Deutz, Department of Child and Adolescent Studies, Utrecht University, P.O. Box 80.140, 3508 TC Utrecht, The Netherlands; E-mail: m.h.f.deutz@uu.nl.
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Abstract

The Dysregulation Profile (DP) is a broad indicator of concurrent affective, behavioral, and cognitive dysregulation, often measured with the anxious/depressed, aggressive behavior, and attention problems syndrome scales of the Child Behavior Checklist. Despite an expanding body of research on the DP, knowledge of the normative developmental course of the DP from early childhood to adolescence is lacking. Furthermore, although we know that the DP longitudinally predicts personality pathology, no research yet has examined whether next to the DP in early childhood, the rate of change of the DP across development predicts personality pathology. Therefore, using cohort-sequential latent growth modeling in a population-based sample (N = 668), we examined the normative developmental course of mother-reported DP from ages 4 to 17 years and its associations with a wide range of adolescent-reported personality pathology dimensions 3 years later. The results showed that the DP follows a nonlinear developmental course with a peak in early adolescence. The initial level of the DP at age 4 and, to a lesser extent, the rate of change in the DP predicted a range of personality pathology dimensions in late adolescence. The findings suggest that the DP is a broad developmental precursor of personality pathology in late adolescence.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 30 , Issue 2 , May 2018 , pp. 437 - 447
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The authors thank all of the parents and children who generously participated in the study.

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