Taxometric evidence of a dimensional latent structure for depression in an epidemiological sample of children and adolescents
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BACKGROUND: A basic phenomenological question of much theoretical and empirical interest is whether the latent structure of depression is dimensional or categorical in nature. Prior taxometric studies of youth depression have yielded mixed findings. In a step towards resolving these contradictory findings, the current taxometric investigation is the first to utilize a recently developed objective index, the comparison curve fit index, to evaluate the latent structure of major depression in an epidemiological sample of children and adolescents. METHOD: Data were derived from Mental Health of Children and Young People in Great Britain surveys. Participants were administered a structured diagnostic interview to assess for current depression. Parents (n = 683) were interviewed for children aged 5-16 years, and child interviews (n = 605) were conducted for those aged 11-16 years. RESULTS: MAMBAC (mean above minus below a cut), MAXEIG (maximum eigenvalue) and L-Mode (latent mode) analyses provided convergent support for a dimensional latent structure. CONCLUSIONS: The current findings suggest that depression in youth is more accurately conceptualized as a continuous syndrome rather than a discrete diagnostic entity.
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Several taxometric studies of youth depression have yielded mixed support for a dimensional versus taxonic latent structure.
“Several taxometric studies of youth depression have been conducted (e.g., Hankin, Fraley, Lahey, & Waldman, 2005; Liu, 2016; Richey et al., 2009; Solomon, Ruscio, Seeley, & Lewinsohn, 2006), with mixed support for a dimensional versus taxonic latent structure.”
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- Authors
- Liu, R. T.
- Affiliations
- Brown University (US)
- Corresponding author
- Liu, R. T.
- ORCID
- Liu, R. T.
- Venue
- Psychological Medicine
- Publisher
- Cambridge University Press (CUP)
- Published
- 2016-01-08
- Volume
- 46
- Issue
- 6
- Pages
- 1265-1275
- ISSN
- 0033-2917 (ISSN-L)
- 1469-8978
- PMC
- PMC4958619
- OpenAlex
- W2289230430
- Cited by
- 43
- References
- 85
- Citations by year
- 2026: 1 · 2025: 1 · 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 7 · 2021: 6 · 2020: 9 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 5 · 2017: 5 · 2016: 1
- FWCI
- 6.64
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Psychological Medicine (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute of Mental Health (R01MH101138)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Keywords
- adolescent depression, taxometric analysis, children and adolescents, major depressive disorder
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Child, Depression, Depressive Disorder, Major, Major Depressive Disorder, Female, United Kingdom, Humans, Interview, Psychological, Male, Surveys and Questionnaires, Models, Statistical, Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders
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