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Citation

van den Bedem NP, Dockrell JE, van Alphen PM, de Rooij M, Samson AC, Harjunen EL, Rieffe C. Int. J. Lang. Commun. Disord. 2018; 53(6): 1110-1123.

Affiliation

NSDSK, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2018, Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists, Publisher Wiley)

DOI

10.1111/1460-6984.12423

PMID

30141224

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Depressive symptoms are common in children with developmental language disorder (DLD). However, risk and protective factors contributing to these problems are currently underspecified. AIMS: The current longitudinal study examined the role of emotion-regulation (ER) strategies in the severity of depressive symptoms in children with and without DLD, taking into account the severity of communication problems of children with DLD.

METHODS & PROCEDURES: We followed clinically referred children with DLD (n = 114, 49% girls) and without DLD (n = 214, 58% girls) between the ages of 8 and 16 years across an 18-month period. Participants completed self-report questionnaires at three time points. Parents of children with DLD reported on their child's communication problems. OUTCOMES & RESULTS: Multilevel analyses confirmed higher levels of depressive symptoms in youngsters with DLD compared with peers without DLD, with a decrease across time in the DLD group. In both groups, higher levels of approach and increasing avoidant strategies aimed at distraction or trivializing a problem explained lower depressive symptoms, whereas more worry and externalizing strategies contributed to more depressive symptoms. Within the DLD group, semantic language problems were associated with higher depressive symptoms. However, this relation was mediated by the tendency to worry or use externalizing strategies.

CONCLUSIONS & IMPLICATIONS: Results suggest that interventions for children with DLD should focus on enhancing their adaptive ER strategies to help them cope with daily stressors just as in the general population.

© 2018 The Authors International Journal of Language & Communication Disorders published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of Royal College of Speech and Language Therapists.


Language: en

Keywords

adolescence; development; internalizing psychopathology; specific language impairment

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