Family Stress and Rural African-American Adolescents' Depressive Symptoms.

ABSTRACT:

Purpose

Limited longitudinal research investigates the effects of family stress on the development of depressive symptoms among African-American adolescents. This study tests a developmental model of the family and intrapersonal processes linking family stress to depressive symptoms from the ages of 11 to 15 years. We hypothesized that family stress would predict increases in caregiver-youth conflict, which in turn would predict decreases in adolescents' self-control, a proximal predictor of increases in depressive symptoms.

Methods

The sample consisted of 472 African-American youths and their primary caregivers from eight rural counties in southern Georgia who provided data at four time points (youth of ages 11-15 years). Hypotheses were tested with structural equation mode

SUBMITTER: Reck AJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8612945 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature