Risk of depression and self-harm in teenagers identifying with goth subculture: a longitudinal cohort study.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Previous research has suggested that deliberate self-harm is associated with contemporary goth subculture in young people; however, whether this association is confounded by characteristics of young people, their families, and their circumstances is unclear. We aimed to test whether self-identification as a goth is prospectively associated with emergence of clinical depression and self-harm in early adulthood.

Methods

We used data from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, a UK community-based birth cohort of 14 541 pregnant women with expected delivery between April 1, 1991, and Dec 31, 1992. All children in the study were invited to attend yearly follow-up visits at the research clinic from age 7 years. At 15 years of age, participants reported th

SUBMITTER: Bowes L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4698805 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature