12. Trajectories of aggressive and depressive symptoms in male and female overweight children : Do they share a common path or do they follow different routes?

Autor	CERNIGLIA Luca TAMBELLI Silvia ERRIU Michaela JEŽEK Stanislav ALMENARA Carlos Arturo TAMBELLI Renata
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Year	2018
Research type	paper in Journal
Annotation	This study adopted a growth curve modeling over three phases to: (1) describe BMI trajectories in two groups of children aged 2–8 (overweight and normal weight) from a community sample; (2) describe the developmental trajectories of children’s aggressive and depressive symptoms from 2 to 8 years of age. Results indicate higher BMI in 2-year-old girls, with males catching up with them by age 8. While overweight females’ BMIs were consistently high, males’ increased at 5 and 8 years. The mean scores for aggressive symptoms at T1 (2 years of age) were the same in all subjects, but a significant deviation occurred from T1 to T2 in both samples, in divergent directions. With regards to children’s depressive symptoms, the two groups had different starting points, with normal weight children scoring lower than overweight youths. Overweight females showed lower depressive scores than overweight males at T1, but they surpassed boys before T2, and showed more maladaptive symptoms at T3. This study solicits professionals working in pediatric settings to consider overweight children’s psychopathological risk, and to be aware that even when children’s BMI does not increase from 2 to 8 years, their psychopathological symptoms may grow in intensity.
Keywords	BMI, early childhood, developmental trajectories, preschool children
Research type	unrepeated research
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Obor	AN Psychology
Email	stan@fss.muni.cz
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Link	http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190731
Research location	Ne, po zaplacení
Organisation	Fakulta sociálních studií Masarykovy univerzity
Organisation web	fss.muni.cz
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