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Heterogeneity in children’s reading comprehension difficulties: A latent class approach
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘Poor comprehenders are traditionally identified as having below-average reading comprehension, average-range word reading, and a discrepancy between the two. While oral language tends to be low in poor comprehenders, reading is a complex trait and heterogeneity may go undetected by group-level comparisons.’ Emma James (pic) et al.
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Patterns of maladaptive exercise behavior from ages 14–24 in a longitudinal cohort
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The current study clarifies processes that influence exercise-related risk in adolescence and young adulthood, including the frequency with which young people transition between engaging in exercise for weight loss and experiencing negative consequences of this behavior.’ Katherine Schaumberg (pic) et al.
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Socioeconomic disadvantage and high-effort coping in childhood: evidence of skin-deep resilience
Paper from the JCPP – ‘The current study hypothesized that skin-deep resilience – a pattern wherein socioeconomic disadvantage is linked to better mental health but worse physical health for individuals with John Henryism high-effort coping – is already present in childhood.’ Katherine B. Ehrlich (pic) et al.
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The genetics of gaming: A longitudinal twin study
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We examined the genetic and environmental contribution to gaming behavior, including sex differences, continuity and change, in a longitudinal cohort of twins.’ Anders Nilsson (pic) et al.
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Enhanced late positive potential to conditioned threat cue during delayed extinction in anxious youth
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘This study compared threat learning among anxious and non-anxious youth using self-reports, peripheral psychophysiology measures, and event-related potentials’. Zohar Klein (pic) et al.
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Editorial Perspective: Missing the context: The challenge of social inequalities to school-based mental health interventions
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘We describe how social inequalities present a challenge to designing school-based interventions for prevention and promotion for mental health and wellbeing, and suggest priorities to aid and evaluate their effectiveness’. Karen L. Mansfield (pic) et al.
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Changes in UK parental mental health symptoms over 10 months of the COVID-19 pandemic
Open Access paper from JCPP Advances – ‘The threats to health, associated restrictions and economic consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic have been linked to increases in mental health difficulties for many. Parents, in particular, have experienced many challenges such as having to combine work with home-schooling their children and other caring responsibilities’. Simona Skripkauskaite (pic) et al.
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Trajectories of cortical structures associated with stress across adolescence: a bivariate latent change score approach
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘Here, we used a subset of the IMAGEN population cohort sample to understand longitudinally the long-term interrelations between stress, cortical development, and cognitive functioning.’ Tochukwu Nweze (pic) et al.
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Mortality risk following self-harm in young people: a population cohort study using the Northern Ireland Registry of Self-Harm
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘The aims of this study were to describe the characteristics of young people who present with self-harm; quantify the risk of suicide and other causes of death during follow up, and to identify factors associated with mortality risk’. Emma Ross (pic) et al.
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Genome-wide DNA methylation analysis of aggressive behaviour: a longitudinal population-based study
Open Access paper from the JCPP – ‘We examined the association between aggressive behaviour, as measured by Life History of Aggression (LHA) total score and DNAm levels both assessed at age 25.’ Ehsan Pishva (pic) et al.
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