ERIC Number: EJ967269
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Publication Date: 2012-Jun
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Brief Report: A Family Risk Study Exploring Bipolar Spectrum Problems and Cognitive Biases in Adolescent Children of Bipolar Parents
Espie, Jonathan; Jones, Steven H.; Vance, Yvonne H.; Tai, Sara J.
Journal of Adolescence, v35 n3 p769-772 Jun 2012
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. (Contains 1 table.)
Descriptors: Personality, Adolescents, Depression (Psychology), Genetics, At Risk Persons, Case Studies, Clinical Diagnosis, Parents, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Attribution Theory, Symptoms (Individual Disorders), Personality Traits, Correlation, Mental Disorders
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