Using informant discrepancies in report of parent-adolescent conflict to predict hopelessness in adolescent depression.

ABSTRACT: Hopelessness is an important symptom of adolescent depression, being associated with both risk of suicide and poor treatment response, but predictors of hopelessness are understudied. Conflict with parents is common in adolescent depression, but parents and adolescents often disagree when reporting conflict severity. Discrepancy in reporting may be an indicator of the parent-adolescent dyad lacking a shared representation of the state of their relationship. This could make conflicts seem unresolvable to the adolescent, leading to expectations of persistent stress and lack of support, increasing hopelessness. This study employed latent difference scores, ordinal regression and cross-validation to evaluate the hypothesis that discrepancy in report of parent-adolescent conflict would predict

SUBMITTER: Rognli EW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7802054 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature