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Discrete time measures versus trajectories of drinking frequency across adolescence as predictors of binge drinking in young adulthood : a longitudinal investigation
Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; Wellman, Robert J.; Ahun, Marilyn N.; Datta, Geetanjali; Jutras-Aswad, Didier; O'Loughlin, Jennifer (BMJ Publishing Group, 2020-09-23)Objectives We compared discrete time measures with trajectories of adolescent drinking frequency as predictors of sustained binge drinking in young adulthood. Design Prospective longitudinal study. Setting 10 high schools in Montréal, Canada. Participants ... -
Maternal depression symptoms and internalising problems in the offspring : the role of maternal and family factors
Ahun, Marilyn N.; Consoli, Angele; Pingault, Jean-Baptiste; Falissard, Bruno; Battaglia, Marco; Boivin, Michel; Tremblay, Richard Ernest; Côté, Sylvana (Springer, 2017-12-22)Maternal depression symptoms (MDS) are a robust risk factor for internalising problems (IP) in the offspring. However, the relative importance of MDS and other factors associated with it (i.e. other types of maternal psychopathology, maternal parenting ... -
Maternal depressive symptoms and children's academic performance : sex differences in the mediating role of school experiences
Ahun, Marilyn N.; Psychogiou, Lamprini; Guay, Frédéric; Boivin, Michel; Tremblay, Richard Ernest; Côté, Sylvana (Cambridge University Press, 2020-12-04)Background. Maternal depressive symptoms (MDSs) are negatively associated with children’s academic performance, with stronger effects sometimes reported in boys. However, few studies have tested the mechanisms of this association. We examined the ... -
Maternal depressive symptoms and early childhood cognitive development : a review of putative environmental mediators
Ahun, Marilyn N.; Côté, Sylvana (Springer, 2018-06-06)Despite the abundance of research investigating the associations between maternal depressive symptoms (MDS) and children’s cognitive development, little is known about the putative mechanisms through which depressive symptoms are associated with ... -
The mediating role of adolescents’ loneliness and social withdrawal in the association between maternal depressive symptoms and suicidality in adolescence : a 20-year population-based study
Psychogiou, Lamprini; Ahun, Marilyn N.; Boivin, Michel; Tremblay, Richard Ernest; Orri, Massimiliano; Côté, Sylvana (Cambridge University Press, 2021-01-25)We examined whether adolescents’ loneliness and social withdrawal mediated the association between maternal depressive symptoms and adolescent suicidality. Secondary analyses on the Québec Longitudinal Study of Child Development data were conducted (n ... -
Revisiting trajectories of BMI in youth : an in‐depth analysis of differences between BMI and other adiposity measures
Sylvestre, Marie-Pierre; Ahun, Marilyn N.; O'Loughlin, Jennifer (Wiley, 2021-06-16)Objective Body mass index (BMI) is used to identify trajectories of adiposity in youth, but it does not distinguish fat- from fat-free-mass. There are other inexpensive measures of adiposity which might better capture fat-mass in youth The objective ... -
Why is maternal depression related to adolescent internalizing problems? : a 15-year population-based study
Côté, Sylvana; Ahun, Marilyn N.; Herba, Catherine; Brendgen, Mara; Geoffroy, Marie-Claude; Orri, Massimiliano; Liu, Xuecheng; Vitaro, Frank; Melchior, Maria; Boivin, Michel; Tremblay, Richard Ernest (Elsevier, 2018-09-20)Objective: Exposure to maternal depression during early childhood is a well-documented risk factor for offspring's internalizing problems, but the long-term risk and the psychosocial mechanisms underlying the association remain largely unknown. We ...