Intergenerational transmission of lifetime stressor exposure in adolescent girls at differential maternal risk for depression.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

Adolescent girls who grow up with mothers who are depressed are themselves highly vulnerable to developing depression (i.e., "intergenerational transmission of depression"). Stressor exposure is a strong risk factor for depression, and the transmission of depression risk from mothers to daughters is partly due to mothers experiencing more stressors, increasing daughters' stressor burden. However, research in this area has only assessed recent stressors, making the role of cumulative lifetime stressors unclear.

Method

To address this issue, we recruited 52 dyads of mothers and adolescent daughters, of which 22 daughters were at high maternal risk for depression. Participants completed diagnostic interviews, and daughters additionally self-reported their depressive s

SUBMITTER: Murphy MLM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9851932 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature