Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301, USA.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2009 Jul;38(4):453-9. doi: 10.1080/15374410902976387.
There are marked sex differences in the prevalence of most types of child psychopathology. Understanding the causes of these sex differences has the potential to advance causal theories of child psychopathology. The goal of this special section is to stimulate rigorous research focused on the causes of sex differences in the prevalence of child psychopathology. To provide a context for the articles included in this special section, a brief summary of recent findings of sex differences in developmental trajectories of child psychopathology is presented along with a discussion of methodological issues and promising directions for future research on sex differences.
在大多数类型的儿童精神病理学中，都存在明显的性别差异。了解这些性别差异的原因有可能促进儿童精神病理学的因果理论的发展。本特刊的目标是激发针对儿童精神病理学患病率性别差异原因的严格研究。为了为本特刊中的文章提供背景，本文简要总结了儿童精神病理学发展轨迹中性别差异的最新发现，并讨论了方法学问题和未来性别差异研究的有前景方向。
