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- Title
Brief report: A family risk study exploring bipolar spectrum problems and cognitive biases in adolescent children of bipolar parents
- Authors
Espie, Jonathan; Jones, Steven H.; Vance, Yvonne H.; Tai, Sara J.
- Abstract
Abstract: Children of parents with bipolar disorder are at increased risk of bipolar spectrum diagnoses. This cross-sectional study explores cognitive factors in the prediction of vulnerability to bipolar disorder. Adolescents at high-risk (with a parent with bipolar disorder; n = 23) and age and gender matched adolescents (n = 24) were recruited. Parent and adolescent diagnoses were evaluated (SCID and SADS-L). Adolescents completed self-report measures assessing attributional style (ASQ), appraisal of hypomania-relevant experiences (HIQ), and hypomanic personality/temperament (HPS). Despite limitations in the power of the study, significantly more adolescents at high-risk for disorder received bipolar spectrum diagnoses. Groups did not differ in attributional style, hypomanic temperament or appraisals of hypomania-relevant experiences. A trend in ASQ results and general implications are discussed. The current study suggests that familial risk of bipolar disorder is not inevitably associated with cognitive biases in adolescence.
- Subjects
PARENTS with intellectual disabilities; BIPOLAR disorder; TEENAGERS; COGNITIVE bias; CROSS-sectional method; HYPOMANIA; SELF-evaluation; GENDER
- Publication
Journal of Adolescence, 2012, Vol 35, Issue 3, p769
- ISSN
0140-1971
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1016/j.adolescence.2011.11.002