Intergenerational Continuity in Depression: The Importance of Time-Varying Effects, Maternal Co-morbid Health Risk Behaviors and Child’s Gender
| Autor: | Kimberly L. Henry, Megan Bears Augustyn, Celia J. Fulco |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2018 |
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Male Time Factors Social Psychology Adolescent Offspring Substance-Related Disorders Poison control Intimate Partner Violence Mothers 050109 social psychology Comorbidity Suicide prevention Article Education Health Risk Behaviors Young Adult Sex Factors Risk Factors Injury prevention Developmental and Educational Psychology medicine Humans 0501 psychology and cognitive sciences Prospective Studies Young adult Child Depression 05 social sciences medicine.disease Mother-Child Relations Health psychology Criminal Behavior Intergenerational Relations Domestic violence Female Maternal Inheritance Self Report Psychology Social Sciences (miscellaneous) 050104 developmental & child psychology Clinical psychology |
| Popis: | Intergenerational continuity in depressive symptoms is well established between mother and child, but there are still important facets of this relationship that are underexplored. We examine intergenerational continuity in depressive symptoms between mother-child dyads as a flexible function of child age and account for the potential moderating role of maternal co-morbid health risk behaviors. Using prospective, self-report data collected yearly from 413 mother-child dyads (210 mother-son dyads and 203 mother-daughter dyads) between child ages 12-17, the results indicate that the effect of maternal depressive symptoms on daughters' depressive symptoms steadily increases throughout adolescence whereas the effect of maternal depressive symptoms on sons' depressive symptoms is relatively small, stable, and non-significant during mid-adolescence before increasing in effect in later adolescence. A positive interactive effect between maternal depressive symptoms and intimate partner violence is observed for sons and maternal depressive symptoms and substance use for daughters. A negative interactive effect of maternal depressive symptoms and substance use is observed among sons. Overall, this study identifies particular subgroups for whom intervention programming is most beneficial and suggests targeting health risk behaviors of mothers to lessen the impact of maternal depressive symptoms on offspring. |
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