Archive | 2021
Mediating Factors in Within-Person Developmental Cascades of Externalising, Internalising and ADHD Symptoms in Childhood
Abstract
This study investigated the role of parental involvement alongside academic achievement and peer problems in mediating within-person developmental cascades from externalising to internalising problems and from ADHD symptoms to internalising and externalising problems using autoregressive latent trajectory models with structured residuals. Models were fit for parent- and teacher-reports on children’s psychosocial development as measured by the Social Behaviour Questionnaire (SBQ) collected over ages 7, 9, and 11 in a Swiss longitudinal cohort study (zproso; N=1387, 51% male). Results indicated that none of the considered factors acted as significant mediators in longitudinal relations between ADHD, internalising and externalising problems; hence, a full picture of the mediating mechanisms in developmental cascades remains to be identified.