Are there Gender-Specific Pathways from Early Adolescence Psychological Distress Symptoms Toward the Development of Substance Use and Abnormal Eating Behavior?

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• 作者：Luis Beato-Fernández ; Teresa Rodríguez-Cano ; Esther Pelayo-Delgado and Myralys Calaf
• 关键词：Adolescents ; Spanish ; Substance use ; Eating behavior ; Gender ; General psychiatric morbidity
• 刊名：Child Psychiatry and Human Development
• 出版年：2007
• 出版时间：February, 2007
• 年：2007
• 卷：37
• 期：3
• 页码：193-203
• 全文大小：167 KB
• 刊物类别：Behavioral Science
• 刊物主题：Psychology
  Child and School Psychology
  Psychiatry
  
• 出版者：Springer Netherlands
• ISSN：1573-3327

文摘

The aim of the present longitudinal community study was to test whether psychological distress at 13 years of age predicted reported substance use problems in boys and abnormal eating behavior in girls 2 years later. The sample consisted of 500 male and 576 female students. The use of substances was evaluated using a semi-structured interview, psychological distress with the General Health Questionnaire (GHQ) and eating psychopathology with the Eating Attitudes Test (EAT-40), and the Bulimic Investigatory Test Edinburgh (BITE). Controlling the effect of initial substance use problems, psychological distress predicted later reported substance use problems in males. Girls with an initial score above the cut-off point on the GHQ were two times more likely to be at risk of having an eating disorder 2 years later. Therefore, psychological distress might take different developmental pathways in males and females, leading toward eating problems in the latter versus substance use in the former.