External Publications Using GUI Data
Authors | Year | Title | Link | Journal/Book ↑ | Abstract |
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Brady, A.M., Hennessy, E., Polek, E. | 2015 | Teenage parenthood and child externalising and internalising problems: evidence from the 'Growing Up in Ireland' study | Open | The Irish Journal of Psychology | |
Previous research has suggested that the children of teenage parents are at a high risk of developing both internalising and externalising behaviour disorders. The current study aimed to explore pathways through which children of teenage mothers show more externalising and internalising psychopathology than their peers whose parents were older. The present study used data from the first wave of the ‘Growing Up in Ireland’ 9-year-old cohort and employed structural equation modelling to assess the explanatory value of a model informed by previous research findings. Goodness-of-fit indices indicated that many aspects of the familial environment of Irish teenage families did indeed place children at a substantial risk of problematic developmental outcomes. In particular, the results implicated the influential power of economic stability and familial conflict on the well-being of teenage families and related child outcomes, results similar to those reported in international studies. Keywords: teenage mothers in Ireland, economic stability, externalising problems, internalising problems | |||||
Murray, A. | 2012 | The relationship of parenting style to academic achievement in middle childhood | Open | The Irish Journal of Psychology | |
Parenting style has been highlighted as an important factor in child and adolescent outcomes for a range of indicators including health and educational achievement. The fostering of a positive self-concept and closer parental monitoring of school involvement are two of the suggested mechanisms by which parenting style may affect educational achievement. In recent years, much research has tended to focus on adolescents and there is considerably less information for middle childhood. This paper looks at the role of maternal parenting style (based on child-reports) on academic achievement for a large sample of 9-year-old children who took part in the Growing Up in Ireland study. It shows that an authoritative parenting style was associated with higher scores on measures of reading and maths relative to neglectful or uninvolved styles, however the expected advantage over an authoritarian parenting style did not emerge (and tended to reverse post-adjustment for mediators), and other socio-demographic characteristics such as maternal education were stronger predictors. Adjustments for possible mediating variables had a complex effect on the earlier models and suggest that authoritative parenting may have an indirect effect through both parental monitoring and the promotion of positive self-concept, especially the latter. Keywords | |||||
Murray, A. | 2012 | What can children’s fears tell us about childhood? An exploration of data collected as part of Growing Up in Ireland, the National Longitudinal Study of Children. | Open | The Irish Psychologist | |
Kong, K. | 2020 | Academic Resilience of Pupils from Low Socioeconomic Backgrounds | Open | The Journal of Behavioral Science | |
The purpose of the study was, 1) to identify risk and protective factors that predict academic achievement in low socioeconomic status (SES) pupils in Ireland; and 2) to establish if these predicting factors are unique and applicable only in low-SES pupils. Using two waves of the Irish nationally representative longitudinal data, a multi-informant design was applied to analyse data from over 7,000 children along with their caregivers and teachers. A series of multilevel regression analyses were performed to compare data from low-SES and high-SES pupils. After controlling for prior achievement, findings suggested that academic achievement in both low and high-SES pupils are promoted by educational aspirations, attentional skills and being in the rural area. The strength of the association between protective factors and academic achievement, however, varies between the two groups. Nonetheless, close parent-child relationship in low-SES female pupils appears to be a unique factor that promotes academic resilience that does not apply to the rest of the pupils. The study contributes credible evidence and fresh insights into protective factors that exclusively promote academic resilience in low-SES pupils. From the perspective of policy and intervention, the differentiated knowledge gained is useful to inform the provision of targeted efforts aimed at closing the gap in achievement between pupils from different socioeconomic backgrounds. | |||||
Neville, R.D., McArthur, B.A., Eirich, R., Lakes, K.D., Madigan, S. | 2021 | Bidirectional associations between screen time and children’s externalizing and internalizing behaviors | Open | The Journal of Child Psyhology and Psychiatry | |
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D'Urso, G., Symonds, J., Pace, U. | 2020 | Positive Youth Development and Being Bullied in Early Adolescence: A Sociocultural Analysis of National Cohort Data | Open | The Journal of Early Adolescence | |
In the current study, we investigated the developmental dynamics between positive youth development, being bullied in adolescence, gender, and sociocultural risk factors. Participants were 3,509 males (49%) and 3,656 females (51%) studied longitudinally across the ages of 9, 13, and 17 years in the Growing Up in Ireland study. Using structural equation modeling, we discovered that being bullied in early adolescence was most strongly predicted by having fewer close friends, higher family poverty, and living in neighborhoods with higher levels of disorder. However, the social disadvantage of a young person’s school did not impact being bullied. More positive reports of connection and caring in early adolescence were negatively predicted by neighborhood disorder and family poverty, and being female had positive association with relationships with teachers. Developing confidence, competence, and character in late adolescence was notably related to having fewer experiences of family trauma and transitions in childhood and to having higher levels of rapport with parents in early adolescence. The results highlight the importance of studying relationships and psychological development in sociocultural context. | |||||
Neville, R.D., Guo, Y., Boreham, C.A., Lakes, K.D. | 2021 | Longitudinal Association Between Participation in Organized Sport and Psychosocial Development in Early Childhood | Open | The Journal of Pediatrics | |
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Jabakhanji, S.B., Boland, F., Ward, M., Biesma, R. | 2018 | Body mass index changes in early childhood | Open | The Journal of Pediatrics | |
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Palmer, R., Layte, R., Kearney, J. | 2019 | The maternal health behaviour of non-Irish nationals during pregnancy and the effect of time living in Ireland | Open | The Journal of Public Health | |
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Sunday, S., Clancy, L., Hanafin, J. | 2023 | Associations between parental smoking and teenage alcohol and drug use in the Growing Up in Ireland cohort study: a longitudinal observational study | Open | The Lancet | |
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Butler, M.I., Bastiaanssen, T.F.S., Long-Smith, C.M., et al. | 2023 | The gut microbiome in social anxiety disorder: evidence of altered composition and function | Open | Translational Psychiatry | |
The microbiome-gut-brain axis plays a role in anxiety, the stress response and social development, and is of growing interest in neuropsychiatric conditions. The gut microbiota shows compositional alterations in a variety of psychiatric disorders including depression, generalised anxiety disorder (GAD), autism spectrum disorder (ASD) and schizophrenia but studies investigating the gut microbiome in social anxiety disorder (SAD) are very limited. Using whole-genome shotgun analysis of 49 faecal samples (31 cases and 18 sex- and age-matched controls), we analysed compositional and functional differences in the gut microbiome of patients with SAD in comparison to healthy controls. Overall microbiota composition, as measured by beta-diversity, was found to be different between the SAD and control groups and several taxonomic differences were seen at a genus- and species-level. The relative abundance of the genera Anaeromassillibacillus and Gordonibacter were elevated in SAD, while Parasuterella was enriched in healthy controls. At a species-level, Anaeromassilibacillus sp An250 was found to be more abundant in SAD patients while Parasutterella excrementihominis was higher in controls. No differences were seen in alpha diversity. In relation to functional differences, the gut metabolic module ‘aspartate degradation I’ was elevated in SAD patients. In conclusion, the gut microbiome of patients with SAD differs in composition and function to that of healthy controls. Larger, longitudinal studies are warranted to validate these preliminary results and explore the clinical implications of these microbiome changes. | |||||
Corrigan, O. | 2014 | Watch them Grow: Unmarried-cohabitant and Solo parenthood in Ireland An Analysis of the Growing Up in Ireland infant cohort data Waves 1 and 2 | Open | Treoir Report | |
Corrigan, O. | 2013 | See how they grow: Solo and unmarried-cohabitant parenthood and crisis pregnancy in Ireland. An analysis of the Growing Up in Ireland 9-month old infant cohort data | Open | Treoir Report | |
Banks J., McCoy S., Shevlin M. | 2013 | Inclusive Education Research: Evidence from Growing Up in Ireland | Open | Trinity Education Papers | |
Fahey, T., Keilthy, P., Polek, E. | 2012 | Family Relationships and Family Well-Being: A Study of the Families of Nine Year-Olds in Ireland | Open | UCD / Family Support Agency | |
This study is based on the first wave of data on the child cohort (nine year-olds) in the Growing Up in Ireland (GUI) survey. It examines family relationships and their associations with parent and child well-being in the families of the nine year-olds and explores social inequalities in these aspects of family circumstances. The analysis is presented under five headings: the structure of families (a term which encompasses family structure both currently and over time and also includes family size), relationship quality between parents, the individual well-being of parents, relationship quality between parents and children, and the well-being of children. | |||||
Madden, D. | 2016 | Child and Adolescent Obesity in Ireland: A Longitudinal Perspective | Open | UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series | |
This paper examines developments in childhood and adolescent obesity in Ireland using two waves of the Growing Up in Ireland survey. Obesity appears to level off between the two waves though there is tentative evidence that the socioeconomic gradient, measured with respect to maternal education and family income, becomes steeper. Exploiting the longitudinal nature of the data, transitions into and out of obesity are examined, with higher rates of transition into obesity observed for those whose mothers have the lowest level of education. Decomposition of the concentration index with respect to income reveals a greater role for income related obesity mobility rather than obesity related income mobility. | |||||
McDonnell, T., Doyle, O. | 2014 | Maternal Employment, Childcare and Childhood Overweight during Infancy | Open | UCD Centre for Economic Research Working Paper Series | |
This paper examines the relationship between maternal employment, childcare during infancy and the overweight status of pre-school children. Using data from the Infant Cohort of the Growing-Up in Ireland Survey, propensity score matching addresses the issue of potential selection bias, quantile regression allows the impact of both maternal employment and childcare to be examined throughout the weight distribution and multiple imputation is used to address the problem of missing data due to item non-response. The results suggest that both full-time and part-time maternal employment when a child is 9 months old increase the likelihood of being overweight at 3 years old, but only for children of mothers with higher levels of education. Informal childcare at 9 months also has harmful effects on child weight, but again only for children of more educated mothers. Quantile regression finds that the children most impacted by maternal employment are those at the upper percentiles of the weight distribution. When selection on observables is used to assess bias arising from selection on unobservables, maternal employment estimates are determined to be a lower bound, while informal childcare results could be attributed to selection bias. Overall findings are consistent with research from North America and the United Kingdom, and are in contrast to recent findings from the rest of Europe, suggesting the possible role of institutional factors. | |||||
Doherty, E., Walsh, B., O'Neill, C. | 2014 | Decomposing socioeconomic inequality in child vaccination: results from Ireland. | Open | Vaccine | |
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Kelly, D., Kelly, A., O'Dowd, T., Hayes, C.B. | 2019 | Antibiotic use in early childhood and risk of obesity: longitudinal analysis of a national cohort | Open | World Journal of Pediatrics | |
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Ceatha, N., Koay, A. C. C., Kelly, A., Killeen, T., McCabe, K., Murray, J., Pope, J., Scully, N., Buggy, C., Crowley, D. | 2023 | LGBT+ Youth Perspectives on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity Questions in the Growing Up in Ireland Survey: A Qualitative Study | Open | Youth | |
The increasing importance of identifying lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT+) populations is a key driver in changes to demographic data collection in representative surveys of youth. While such population-based data are rare, Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), an Irish, government-funded, longitudinal survey, includes sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) measurements. This qualitative study responds to a query from the GUI study team and aims to identify how best to collect SOGI data in future waves of GUI. A university Human Research Ethics Committee granted approval for online consultations with LGBT+ youth (n = 6) with experiential expertise in policy making. The research is underpinned by rights-based public patient involvement (PPI) with recorded discussions, which were transcribed and imported into NVivo 12, generating the theme “recognition in research, policy and society”. This co-created article, with the LGBT+ young PPI Panel members, commends the inclusion of SOGI data in GUI and recommends changes in question placement and phrasing. Aligning with best practice, the PPI members provide a template for wording on consecutive sex and gender questions, expanded sexual orientation identity categories and maintaining the existing well-phrased transgender question from GUI. This offers potential to improve the quality of the SOGI data collected and the experience of those completing the questionnaire. These findings extend beyond GUI, with relevance for surveys with youth populations. This paper underscores the potential and benefits of participatory approaches to research with youth and views their role beyond simply as sources of data. Keywords: LGBT+, sexual minority youth (SMY), gender minority youth (GMY), Growing Up in Ireland (GUI), SOGI measurement, quantitative, qualitative, survey design, PPI |