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Predicting Depression and Anxiety from Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms in Elementary School-Age Girls and Boys with Conduct Problems

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This study investigated the relationship between the three DSM-5 categories of oppositional defiant disorder (ODD) symptoms (irritable mood, defiant behavior, vindictive behavior) and anxiety/depression in girls and boys with conduct problems (CP) while controlling for comorbid child psychopathology at baseline. Data were drawn from an ongoing longitudinal study of 6- to 9-year-old French-Canadian children (N = 276; 40.8 % girls) receiving special educational services for CP at school and followed for 2 years. Using linear regression analysis, the results showed that irritable mood symptoms predicted a higher level of depression and anxiety in girls and boys 2 years later, whereas the behavioral symptoms of ODD (e.g., defiant, vindictive symptoms) were linked to lower depression scores. The contribution of ODD symptoms to these predictions, while statistically significant, remained modest. The usefulness of ODD irritable symptoms as a marker for identifying girls and boys with CP who are more vulnerable to developing internalizing problems is discussed.

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This research was supported in part by grants from the Canadian Institutes of Health Research (82694) and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (37890).

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  1. Département de Psychoéducation, Université de Sherbrooke, Sherbrooke, QC, J1K2R1, Canada

    Michèle Déry, Mélanie Lapalme, Jadzia Jagiellowicz, Caroline Temcheff & Jean Toupin

  2. Département d’Éducation, Université du Québec à Rimouski, Rimouski, QC, Canada

    Martine Poirier

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Déry, M., Lapalme, M., Jagiellowicz, J. et al. Predicting Depression and Anxiety from Oppositional Defiant Disorder Symptoms in Elementary School-Age Girls and Boys with Conduct Problems. Child Psychiatry Hum Dev 48, 53–62 (2017). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10578-016-0652-5

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