Journal
CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGICAL SCIENCE
Volume 6, Issue 3, Pages 352-371Publisher
SAGE PUBLICATIONS INC
DOI: 10.1177/2167702617741381
Keywords
victimization; adolescence; developmental psychopathology
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- U.K. Medical Research Council [G1002190]
- Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Development (NICHD) [HD077482]
- Jacobs Foundation
- Duke Social Science Research Institute
- MQ: Transforming Mental Health Award [MQ14F40]
- National Institute on Aging [T32-AG000139]
- NICHD [T32-HD007376]
- ESRC [ES/P010113/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- MRC [MR/P005918/1, G1002190] Funding Source: UKRI
- Economic and Social Research Council [ES/P010113/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- Medical Research Council [G1002190] Funding Source: researchfish
- MQ Mental Health Research [MQ14F40] Funding Source: researchfish
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Adolescence is the peak age for both victimization and mental disorder onset. Previous research has reported associations between victimization exposure and many psychiatric conditions. However, causality remains controversial. Within the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study, we tested whether seven types of adolescent victimization increased risk of multiple psychiatric conditions and approached causal inference by systematically ruling out noncausal explanations. Longitudinal within-individual analyses showed that victimization was followed by increased mental health problems over a childhood baseline of emotional/behavioral problems. Discordant-twin analyses showed that victimization increased risk of mental health problems independent of family background and genetic risk. Both childhood and adolescent victimization made unique contributions to risk. Victimization predicted heightened generalized liability (the p factor) to multiple psychiatric spectra, including internalizing, externalizing, and thought disorders. Results recommend violence reduction and identification and treatment of adolescent victims to reduce psychiatric burden.
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