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Identification of youth at risk for anxiety and unipolar mood disorders (UMDs) can improve public health by targeting those who may warrant early or preventive intervention. This study examined whether endorsing core features of anxiety and UMDs predicted onset of later anxiety and UMDs across the next 7–9 years, and whether having subthreshold or subclinical manifestations of these disorders similarly predicted onset.

Data from this study come from the Youth Emotion Project (YEP), a two‐site investigation of common and specific risk factors for emotional disorders. Endorsement of core features of a disorder and subclinical or subthreshold anxiety and UMD diagnoses were determined using data from the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM‐IV (SCID) at the baseline assessment. Participants completed annual SCIDs over the course of the next 7–9 years (depending on cohort …