DISTINGUISHING DIFFERENT TIMESCALES OF UNPREDICTABILITY HELPS EXPLAIN INDIVIDUAL DIFFERENCES IN CHILDREN'S INTERNALIZING AND EXTERNALIZING SYMPTOMS

Distinct dimensions of early life adversity, such as deprivation, threat and unpredictability have been shown to contribute to the emergence of psychopathology in childhood and adolescence through partially distinct pathways. However, the conceptualization and operationalization of unpredictability...

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Published inActa neurobiologiae experimentalis Vol. 82; p. LXIII
Main Authors Farkas, Bence Cs, Baptista, Axel, Speranza, Mario, Wyart, Valentin, Jacquet, Pierre O
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Warsaw Polish Academy of Sciences 01.01.2022
Subjects
Adolescents
Children
Cognitive ability
Deprivation
Multivariate statistical analysis
Nervous system
Phenotypic plasticity
Psychopathology
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Summary:Distinct dimensions of early life adversity, such as deprivation, threat and unpredictability have been shown to contribute to the emergence of psychopathology in childhood and adolescence through partially distinct pathways. However, the conceptualization and operationalization of unpredictability is heterogenous in the literature, intermixing variability across widely distinct timescales. In this work, inspired by evolutionary-developmental models of phenotypic plasticity and the cognitive neuroscience of learning under uncertainty, we explored how deprivation, threat as well as short and long timescale unpredictability during early life are related to internalizing and externalizing psychopathology during adolescence. We utilized a structural equation modelling approach to analyse longitudinal data from the Fragile Families and Child Wellbeing cohort. We found that whereas short timescale unpredictability (e.g., experiencing multiple care arrangments on a weekly basis) was primarily related to internalizing problems.
ISSN:0065-1400
1689-0035