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[Sex as a moderating variable of internalizing and externalizing symptomatology in childhood].

Year: 2023

Type: article

Abstract: OBJECTIVE: One in one hundred minors has some mental health problem. Symptomatology varies according to gender. Most research has been conducted with the general population. The objective of this paper was to analyze the moderating role of sex in the presence of internalizing (emotional disorders, anxiety and depression) and externalizing symptomatology (behavioral disorders and hyperactivity) in childhood, as well as to compare the general population with the clinical population. METHODS: A descriptive cross-sectional study was conducted with 552 boys and girls between ten and twelve years of age, 94 mental health patients and 458 schoolchildren. Participants completed self-report measures: Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire (SDQ-Cas), Modified Depression Scale (MDS) and a sociodemographic information questionnaire. For data analysis, descriptive statistics and multivariate and univariate mean comparisons were performed by parametric and re-sampling procedures. RESULTS: =0.003). CONCLUSIONS: Research with mental health patients is essential to verify the existence or not of differences with the general population as well as differences by sex, which will allow adapting preventive and intervention strategies to each case.

Source: PubMed Central

Authors: Mayelin Rey Bruguera, Isabel Calonge Romano, María Del Rosario Martínez Arias, Helena Thomas Currás

Institutions: Universidad Rey Juan Carlos, Hospital Universitario Ramón y Cajal, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Language: Spanish

Topic: Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development

Subfield: Clinical Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: green

OpenAlex ID: W4360600637

FWCI: 0.448

Cites: 32

Cited by: 2

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