LIFE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORAL DEVIANCES IN CHILDHOOD - A LONGITUDINAL-STUDY OF A NORMAL POPULATION

Authors
HOOK B HAGGLOF B THERNLUND G
Citation
B. Hook et al., LIFE EVENTS AND BEHAVIORAL DEVIANCES IN CHILDHOOD - A LONGITUDINAL-STUDY OF A NORMAL POPULATION, European child & adolescent psychiatry, 4(3), 1995, pp. 153-164
Citations number
29
Categorie Soggetti
Psychiatry,"Psychology, Developmental
Journal title
European child & adolescent psychiatry → ACNP
ISSN journal
10188827
Volume
4
Issue
3
Year of publication
1995
Pages
153 - 164
Database
ISI
SICI code
1018-8827(1995)4:3<153:LEABDI>2.0.ZU;2-E
Abstract
A semi-structured interview based upon Coddington's life event questio nnaire was revised and modified to measure life changes in children of possible importance for the development of physical and mental illnes s. A normal population of 193 children was investigated in 1981-83 and followed up after six years. The life events during the intervening p eriod are described and correlated to child behavioural symptom load a nd family function before and after. Both the life event load and the adjustment ability of the child make significant contributions to the prediction of child disturbance in the follow-up.