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| SONYA STERBASummaryAffiliation: University of North Carolina Country: USA Publications
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Trajectories of internalizing problems across childhood: heterogeneity, external validity, and gender differencesSonya K Sterba
L L Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, North Carolina 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychopathol 19:345-66. 2007..However, discussion focuses on the need for further external validation of extracted latent classes...
Diagnostic specificity and nonspecificity in the dimensions of preschool psychopathologySONYA STERBA
Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, Department of Psychology, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 48:1005-13. 2007..To inform this debate, we investigate whether preschool psychopathology shows differentiation along diagnostically specific lines when DSM-IV symptoms are aggregated statistically...
Longitudinal dimensionality of adolescent psychopathology: testing the differentiation hypothesisSonya K Sterba
Psychology Department, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
J Child Psychol Psychiatry 51:871-84. 2010..This hypothesis has not been adequately tested with longitudinal psychiatric symptom data...
Matching method with theory in person-oriented developmental psychopathology researchSonya K Sterba
L L Thurstone Psychometric Laboratory, Department of Psychology, The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Campus Box 3270, Chapel Hill, NC 27599 3270, USA
Dev Psychopathol 22:239-54. 2010..We review assumptions, strengths, and limitations of model-based person-oriented methods, clarifying which theoretical principles they can test and the compromises and trade-offs required to do so...
Revealing the form and function of self-injurious thoughts and behaviors: A real-time ecological assessment study among adolescents and young adultsMatthew K Nock
Department of Psychology, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA
J Abnorm Psychol 118:816-27. 2009..This study provides a first glimpse of how SITBs are experienced in everyday life and has significant implications for scientific and clinical work on self-injurious behaviors...
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- Longitudinal Comorbidity: Modeling Symptom, Syndrome, and Impairment ChangeSONYA STERBA; Fiscal Year: 2007..Third, the proposed integrative model will be applied to provide the first simultaneous test of both etiological theories of successive comorbidity across the transition to adolescence, to our knowledge. ..
