Childhood social adversity and risk of depressive symptoms in adolescence in a US national sample.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Childhood social adversity has been associated with an increased risk of depression and other psychiatric disorders in adolescence and early adulthood. However, the role of timing and accumulation of adversities has not yet been established in longitudinal studies. We examined the association between childhood adversities and adolescent depressive symptoms, and the impact of timing and accumulation of adversity.

Method

Longitudinal data were obtained from the Child Development Supplement to the Panel Study of Income Dynamics (n=2223), a nationally representative survey of US families that incorporates data from parents and their children. Negative binomial regression analysis was used to estimate effects of childhood social adversity on adolescent depressive sympto

SUBMITTER: Bjorkenstam E 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5671805 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature