[en] Abnormal child behavior is a complex entity including among others disorders such as ADHD, a neuropsychiatric disorder interfering with the normal development of the child, and combining many comorbidities. There are no specific tools designed to assess abnormal child behavior, although well-known ADHD screening tools such as the CTRS-R:S go beyond the disorder itself and cover the wider construct. This can be understood as the complex system of mutually influencing entities, that is why the aim of this study was to investigate the items of the CTRS-R:S as a psychological network. We analyzed a data set of 525 children in French-speaking primary schools from Belgium, and estimated a Bayesian Gaussian Graphical Model with a Bayes Factor of 30. We identified highly connected nodes from each community of the CTRS-R:S to build an additional network of communities. In the domain network, Oppositional and Cognitive skills share the strongest connection in the network. The 28-item network was overall positively connected albeit the presence of some negative connections. The spinglass algorithm identified eight domains in the CTRS-R:S network that causally influence each other. The network approach is a useful framework to investigate the domains of abnormal child behavior as well as the interplay between individual symptoms.
Disciplines :
Neurosciences & behavior
Author, co-author :
Till, Apolline C; ORCID: 0000-0003-4069-9293 ; Department of Child Psychiatry, Hôpital Erasme, 26659Université Libre de
Florquin, Rémi; Faculté de Médecine, 26659Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussels, Belgium.
Delhaye, Marie; Department of Child Psychiatry, Hôpital Erasme, 26659Université Libre de
Kornreich, Charles; Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et Addictologie, 26659Université Libre de
Williams, Donald R; 8789University of California Davis, Davis, CA, USA.
Briganti, Giovanni ; Université de Mons - UMONS > Faculté de Médecine et de Pharmacie > Service de Neurosciences ; ORCID: 0000-0002-4038-3363 ; Laboratoire de Psychologie Médicale et Addictologie, Faculty of Medicine,
Language :
English
Title :
A network perspective on abnormal child behavior in primary school students.
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