Confirmatory Factor Analysis of Comorbidity between Depression and Aggression in a Child-Adolescent Community Sample: Nosological, Prognosis and Etiological Implications

Rodolfo Gordillo, María Victoria Del Barrio Gándara and Miguel A. Carrasco
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Rodolfo Gordillo: Department of Psychology and Criminology, University at Distance of Madrid (UDIMA), C/Camino de la Fonda 20, 28400 Collado Villalba, Spain
María Victoria Del Barrio Gándara: Department of Personality, Psychological Evaluation and Treatment, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), C/ de Juan del Rosal, 10, 28040 Madrid, Spain
Miguel A. Carrasco: Department of Personality, Psychological Evaluation and Treatment, Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia (UNED), C/ de Juan del Rosal, 10, 28040 Madrid, Spain

IJERPH, 2022, vol. 19, issue 8, 1-9

Abstract: Comorbidity between depression and aggression in the child-adolescent population remains a controversial phenomenon. To our knowledge, no longitudinal study using structural equation modeling (SEM) has confirmed whether the relationship between depression and aggression is due to the fact that they share internalizing and externalizing supraordinal factors at the level of the syndrome or is due to the fact that they share common characteristics in relation to an underlying factor at the level of symptoms. We examined longitudinal comorbid relationships in a community sample (N = 251) at three waves ages from 10 to 13 years. The SEM showed that longitudinally, the comorbidity between depression and aggression is due to the fact that they share characteristics of the same underlying factor at the symptom level. These results have implications for the classification, diagnosis, and treatment of comorbidity between depression and aggression in a child-adolescent population.

Keywords: comorbidity; depression; aggression; childhood; adolescence; longitudinal; SEM (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I I1 I3 Q Q5 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022
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