Dynamic associations between maternal depressive symptoms and adolescents' depressive and externalizing symptoms.

ABSTRACT: The current prospective study investigated transactional relations between maternal depressive symptoms and children's depressive and externalizing symptoms. Participants included 240 children (M age = 11.86 years, SD = 0.56; 53.9% female) and their mothers who were part of a 6-year longitudinal study. Measures of maternal depression (Beck Depression Inventory), child depression (Children's Depression Inventory), and children's externalizing symptoms (Youth Self-Report Form) were assessed annually. Data analyses using dynamic latent difference score structural equation models indicated that the observed relations between mothers' and adolescents' symptoms were stable across the 6 years. Higher levels of maternal depressive symptoms predicted subsequent elevations in children's depressive s

SUBMITTER: Kouros CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3402354 | biostudies-literature | 2010 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature