Trajectories of individual depressive symptoms in adolescents: gender and family relationships as predictors.

ABSTRACT: Depressive syndrome and disorders increase substantially during adolescence. Little is known, however, about how individual symptoms of depression change over the course of this developmental period. The present study examined within-person changes in symptom severity of each individual symptom of depression, utilizing longitudinal data collected across 6 years of adolescence. Adolescent gender and family relationship variables were tested as predictors of the symptom trajectories (i.e., intercept and slope). Adolescents and their mothers (N = 240) were first evaluated when youth were in Grade 6 (M = 11.86 years old, SD = 0.56, 54% female) and then annually through Grade 12. Individual symptoms of depression were assessed by a clinical interviewer using the Children's Depression Rating Sca

SUBMITTER: Kouros CD 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4591045 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature