Associations between caregiver-adolescent emodiversity and internalizing symptoms.

ABSTRACT: Relationships between adolescents and primary caregivers play an important role in the development of internalizing (depressive and anxious) symptoms. We examined associations among caregiver-adolescent emotions and their emodiversity (their breadth and frequency) with adolescents' and caregivers' internalizing symptoms. A total of 181 adolescents (aged 13-17 years old) and their primary caregivers participated in a 14-day daily diary study between 2022 and 2023 where they reported their emotions at the end of each day. We used actor-partner interdependence models to examine whether positive and negative emotions and their emodiversity predicted each individual's and their family member's internalizing symptoms. Primary results concentrated on the actor effects of adolescents' and caregive

SUBMITTER: Lougheed JP 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11758473 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature