Journal article
Creating a developmental scale to chart the development of psychopathology with different informants and measures across time
Journal of psychopathology and clinical science, Vol.131(6), pp.611-625
08/01/2022
DOI: 10.1037/abn0000649
PMCID: PMC9387173
PMID: 35901391
Abstract
Research Domain Criteria (RDoC) aims to advance a dimensional, multilevel understanding of psychopathology across the life span. Two key challenges exist in applying a developmental perspective to RDoC: First, the most accurate informants for assessing a person’s psychopathology often differ across development (e.g., parents and teachers may be better informants of a person’s externalizing problems in early childhood, whereas peer- and self-report may also be important to assess in adolescence). Second, many constructs change in their behavioral manifestation across development (i.e., heterotypic continuity). Thus, different informants and measures across time may be necessary to account for the construct’s changing manifestation. The challenge of using different informants and measures of a construct across time is ensuring that the same construct is assessed in a comparable way across development. Vertical scaling creates a developmental scale to link scores from changing informants and measures to account for heterotypic continuity and study people’s development of psychopathology across the life span. This is the first study that created a developmental scale to assess people’s development by putting different informants and measures on the same scale. We examined the development of externalizing problems from ages 2 to 15 years (N = 1,364) using annual ratings by mothers, fathers, teachers, other caregivers, and self-report. The developmental scale linked different informants and measures on the same scale. This allowed us to chart people’s growth trajectories and to identify multilevel risk factors, including poor verbal comprehension. Creating a developmental scale may be crucial to advance RDoC’s goal of studying the development of psychopathology across the life span
Details
- Title: Subtitle
- Creating a developmental scale to chart the development of psychopathology with different informants and measures across time
- Creators
- Isaac T PetersenBrandon LeBeau
- Resource Type
- Journal article
- Publication Details
- Journal of psychopathology and clinical science, Vol.131(6), pp.611-625
- DOI
- 10.1037/abn0000649
- PMID
- 35901391
- PMCID
- PMC9387173
- NLM abbreviation
- J Psychopathol Clin Sci
- ISSN
- 2769-7541
- eISSN
- 2769-755X
- Grant note
- DOI: 10.13039/100009633, name: Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development; DOI: 10.13039/100000071, name: National Institute of Child Health and Human Development, award: HD098235
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 08/01/2022
- Academic Unit
- Psychological and Brain Sciences; Iowa Neuroscience Institute; Center for Social Science Innovation; Psychological and Quantitative Foundations
- Record Identifier
- 9984296997702771
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