title: [The status of life events in causal analytic considerations in child and adolescent psychiatry: model development trials with LISREL (linear structural relationship analysis)].
abstract: An epidemiological longitudinal child psychiatric study with 334 eight- and thirteen-year-olds tried to put life events in an optimal order within a model of causal interrelations. The causal connections were tested by a Linear Structural Relationship Analysis (LISREL), which in addition to life events included child psychiatric disorders, adverse family factors and learning disabilities. By testing different models it could be demonstrated, that adverse family factors do not directly influence the number of life events of 8 to 13-year-old children. Adverse family factors influence life events as well as psychiatric disorders at age 13 predominantly by way of early psychiatric disorders. Psychiatric disorders at age 13 are best predicted by psychiatric disorders at age 8 and to a smaller degree by life events and learning disabilities.
authors.affiliation: Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrischen Klinik, Zentralinstitut für Seelische Gesundheit, Mannheim.
authors.forename: W H
authors.initials: WH
authors.lastname: Allehoff
authors.forename: G
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Esser
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Schmidt
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D002648:Child; D002667:Child Reactive Disorders / Q000523:psychology*; D003198:Computer Simulation; D005190:Family; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007859:Learning Disabilities / Q000523:psychology; D008016:Life Change Events; D008297:Male; D012984:Software; D013223:Statistics as Topic
vernacular_title: Die Stellung von Life-Events in kausalanalytischen Uberlegungen der Kinder- und Jugendpsychiatrie: Modellbildungsversuche mit LISREL.