Friendships and Family Support Reduce Subsequent Depressive Symptoms in At-Risk Adolescents.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Early life stress (ELS) consists of child family adversities (CFA: negative experiences that happened within the family environment) and/or peer bullying. ELS plays an important role in the development of adolescent depressive symptoms and clinical disorders. Identifying factors that may reduce depressive symptoms in adolescents with ELS may have important public mental health implications.

Methods

We used structural equation modelling and examined the impact of adolescent friendships and/or family support at age 14 on depressive symptoms at age 17 in adolescents exposed to ELS before age 11. To this end, we used structural equation modelling in a community sample of 771 adolescents (322 boys and 477 girls) from a 3 year longitudinal study. Significant paths in th

SUBMITTER: van Harmelen AL 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4856353 | biostudies-literature | 2016

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature