eprintid: 10063372
rev_number: 26
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datestamp: 2018-12-04 12:50:31
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type: article
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creators_name: Patalay, P
creators_name: Fitzsimons, E
title: Development and predictors of mental ill-health and wellbeing from childhood to adolescence
ispublished: pub
divisions: UCL
divisions: B16
divisions: B14
divisions: J81
divisions: B02
divisions: D14
divisions: GA3
divisions: G17
keywords: Well-being, Transition, Mental illness, Depression, Longitudinal
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abstract: PURPOSE: The aim is to investigate the (1) longitudinal development in mental ill-health and wellbeing from ages 11 to 14, (2) predictors of changes in mental health outcomes, and (3) sex and reporter differences. METHOD: Data are taken from 9553 participants in the Millennium Cohort Study, with both mental ill-health (parent- and self-report) and wellbeing outcomes of the cohort members measured at ages 11 and 14. A range of childhood socio-demographic, human capital, family and wider environment risk and protective factors are investigated. RESULTS: Wellbeing has weak stability and mental ill-health has moderate stability between ages 11 and 14 and large sex differences emerge in all the mental health outcomes investigated, with girls experiencing lower wellbeing and greater symptoms of mental illness at age 14. Raw associations between outcomes, and differences in their predictors, indicate varying patterns emerging for parent- and self-reported mental ill-health, with parent-reported symptoms in childhood a poor predictor of both self-reported wellbeing and depressive symptoms in adolescence. Investigating the emergent sex differences in prevalences highlights childhood risk and protective factors at this age that are more salient in females, including family income, school connectedness, cognitive ability, whereas peer relationships and bullying were equally relevant for mental health development in both males and females. CONCLUSION: Low–moderate stability of mental health outcomes stresses the importance of the transition period for mental health, highlighting an intervention window at these ages for prevention. Socio-economic status is associated with mental health development in females but not in males at this age, highlighting a sex-specific vulnerability of deprivation associated with poorer mental health in adolescent females.
date: 2018-12
date_type: published
official_url: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1604-0
oa_status: green
full_text_type: other
language: eng
primo: open
primo_central: open_green
article_type_text: Journal Article
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elements_id: 1589639
doi: 10.1007/s00127-018-1604-0
pii: 10.1007/s00127-018-1604-0
language_elements: English
lyricists_name: Fitzsimons, Emla
lyricists_name: Patalay, Praveetha
lyricists_id: EOAFI22
lyricists_id: PATAL55
actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian
actors_id: DKALI47
actors_role: owner
full_text_status: public
publication: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
volume: 53
number: 12
pagerange: 1311-1323
issn: 0933-7954
citation:        Patalay, P;    Fitzsimons, E;      (2018)    Development and predictors of mental ill-health and wellbeing from childhood to adolescence.                   Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology , 53  (12)   pp. 1311-1323.    10.1007/s00127-018-1604-0 <https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-018-1604-0>.       Green open access   
 
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