Ethnic and sex differences in children's depressive symptoms.

Autor: Kistner JA; Department of Psychology, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306-4301, USA. kistner@psy.fsu.edu, David-Ferdon CF, Lopez CM, Dunkel SB
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: Journal of clinical child and adolescent psychology : the official journal for the Society of Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology, American Psychological Association, Division 53 [J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol] 2007 Apr-Jun; Vol. 36 (2), pp. 171-81.
DOI: 10.1080/15374410701274942
Abstrakt: This study examined ethnic and sex differences in children's depressive symptoms, along with hypothesized mediators of those differences (academic achievement, peer acceptance), in a follow-up of African American (n = 179) and Euro-American (n = 462) children in Grades 3 to 5. African American boys reported more depressive symptoms than African American girls, and Euro-American boys and girls. Also, depressive symptoms of African American boys increased over time whereas depressive symptoms of the other groups decreased or remained stable. Academic and social competence deficits were associated with elevated levels of depressive symptoms across the school year, although only academic achievement scores emerged as a unique predictor of increases in depressive symptoms over time. Neither academic nor social competence mediated the SexA xA ethnicity interaction in changes in children's depressive symptoms.
Databáze: MEDLINE
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