Author(s): Dubé C; Morin AJS; Olivier E; Gilbert W; Tracey D; Craven RG; Maïano C;

This study investigated how the school experiences and personal characteristics of youth with Intellectual Disabilities (ID) contribute to their longitudinal trajectories of anxiety. To this end, we relied on a sample of 390 youth with mild (48.2%) to moderate (51.8%) levels of ID, aged from 11 to 22 (M = 15.70), and recruited in Canada (n = 140) and Aust ...

Article GUID: 37898583

Author(s): Lara E; Matovic S; Vasiliadis HM; Grenier S; Berbiche D; de la Torre-Luque A; Gouin JP;

The COVID-19 pandemic provided a unique opportunity to examine the contributions of social interaction and other non-social factors to loneliness among older adults in the context of confinement measures constraining opportunities for in-person social interactions. This study aims to identify groups of individuals with heterogeneous trajectories of loneli ...

Article GUID: 37499331

Author(s): Lau MA; Temcheff CE; Poirier M; Commisso M; Déry M;

School dropout can be an ongoing process of academic failure and disengagement starting as early as elementary school. Given the multitude of factors involved and the importance of early identification of vulnerabilities, this study examined whether (a) initial levels of conduct problems and depressive symptoms predicted school dropout, (b) the rate of ch ...

Article GUID: 36641221

Author(s): Breton É; Dufour R; Côté SM; Dubois L; Vitaro F; Boivin M; Tremblay RE; Booij L;

Background: Adolescence is a critical period for the development of eating disorders, but data is lacking on the heterogeneity of their evolution during that time-period. Group-based trajectories can be used to understand how eating disorders emerge and evolve over time. The aim of this study was to identify groups of individuals with distinct levels of e ...

Article GUID: 35725645

Author(s): Darwish A; Norouzi S; Kadem L;

Purpose: Identification of coherent structures in cardiovascular flows is crucial to describe the transport and mixing of blood. Coherent structures can highlight locations where minimal blood mixing takes place, thus, potential thrombus formation can be expected thither. Graph-based approaches have recently been introduced in order to describe fluid tran ...

Article GUID: 34845627

Author(s): Velásquez AM; Saldarriaga LM; Castellanos M; Bukowski WM;

Using a four-wave/seven-month longitudinal design with a sample of 1595 preadolescents (53% boys, 47% girls, Mage = 10.2 years) from 63 fourth-, fifth- and sixth- grade classrooms in nine mixed-sex schools in Bogotá, Colombia, we examined whether growth trajectories of measures of overt and relational aggression varied as a function of classroom norms for ...

Article GUID: 34302295

Author(s): Morneau-Vaillancourt G; Andlauer TFM; Ouellet-Morin I; Paquin S; Brendgen MR; Vitaro F; Gouin JP; Séguin JR; Gagnon É; Cheesman R; Forget-Dubois N; Rouleau GA; Turecki G; Tremblay RE; Côté SM; Dionne G; Boivin M;

Background: Children who consistently withdraw from social situations face increased risk for later socioemotional difficulties. Twin studies indicate that genetic factors substantially account for the persistence of social withdrawal over time. However, the molecular genetic etiology of chronic ...

Article GUID: 34085288

Author(s): Dufour M; Morvannou A; Laverdière É; Brunelle N; Kairouz S; Nolin MA; Nadeau L; Dussault F; Berbiche D;

Online poker is considered more at-risk than land-based poker in terms of intense gambling behaviors and gambling problems. The development of many online gambling sites has raised public health concerns about the potential increase in online poker players. Longitudinal studies are useful to bett ...

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