Developmental change in the association between adolescent depressive symptoms and the home environment: results from a longitudinal, genetically informative investigation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is already highly prevalent by late adolescence, indicating that research into its developmental emergence should consider earlier risk factors and environmental contexts. The home environment is a key context for children and adolescents throughout development. However, the nature of relationships that exist between aspects of the home environment and the development of depressive symptoms cannot be assumed. Genetically informative studies have been used to provide insights about the aetiology of such relationships, often finding them to be partly confounded by the influence of children's genes. Here, we investigate developmental change in the aetiology of the association between aspects of the home environment and depressive symptoms at the onset of adolesce

SUBMITTER: Hannigan LJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5484341 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Jul

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature