Transactional patterns of depressive symptoms between mothers and adolescents: The role of emotion regulation.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Depression is a highly prevalent, debilitating disorder that runs in families. Yet, empirical support for bidirectional mechanisms linking mother-adolescent depression symptoms remains limited. This study examined longitudinal bidirectional relations among emotion regulation (ER) constructs and depressive symptoms among mother-adolescent dyads over time. Pathways for girls and boys were explored separately, given extant research on sex differences in the intergenerational transmission of depression.

Methods

Adolescent (n = 232; M = 15.02 years, SD = 0.95; 44% female)-mother dyads, drawn from a longitudinal study on the development of risky behaviors, completed annual assessments of depressive symptoms and facets of ER over 4 years. Panel modeling examined lagged a

SUBMITTER: Felton JW 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8665117 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature