Childhood trajectories of social isolation

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This websites holds analysis code and results for the manuscript titled: Trajectories of childhood social isolation in a nationally representative cohort: Associations with antecedents and early adulthood outcomes.

Authors: Katherine N. Thompson, Candice L. Odgers, Bridget T. Bryan, Andrea Danese, Lily Strange, Timothy Matthews, and Louise Arseneault

All code written by Katherine N Thompson and reviewed by Jessica Agnew-Blais. Analyses for this project were conducted in MPlus version 8.4, STATA version 16, and R version 4.0.3 (All R code written in Rmd format).

All data provided by the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin (E-Risk) Study.

All following links are displayed in the order that the code was run for these analyses. For all Mplus, STATA and R raw code files, please see the github repository by clicking the Github icon in the top right corner.

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Analysis steps

Preliminary

• Data processing
• Preliminary descriptives

Growth models

• Mplus code
• Descriptives for the three class growth mixture model
• Latent growth curve models and growth mixture models
• Latent class growth analysis
• Quadratic growth mixture models

Associations with antecedents and outcomes

• Associations with antecedents
• Associations with outcomes

Sensitivity analyses

• Sex interactions
• 3-Step sensitivity check

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Please note that all analyses have not yet undergone peer review. Once published, the reference and DOI will be provided.

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Acknowledgements

We are grateful to the E-Risk Study members and their families for their participation. Our thanks to CACI, Inc., and to members of the E-Risk team for their dedication, hard work, and insights. Thank you to Dr Oliver Pain and Yan Holtz for such amazing tutorials for the making of this website!

 

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Work by Katherine N Thompson

katherine.n.thompson@kcl.ac.uk