Manic Symptoms in Youth: Dimensions, Latent Classes, and Associations With Parental Psychopathology

The purpose of the study was to define the latent structure of parent-reported manic symptoms and their association with functional impairment and familial risk in a community sample of Brazilian children.We screened for manic symptoms in a community sample of 2,512 children 6 to 12 years of age. Parents of children with "episodes of going abnormally high" completed a detailed mania section (n = 479; 19.1%). Confirmatory factor analysis (CFA)...