A longitudinal examination of familial risk factors for depression among inner-city African American adolescents. J Fam Psychol 2003 Mar;17(1):108-20
Date
04/02/2003Pubmed ID
12666467DOI
10.1037/0893-3200.17.1.108Scopus ID
2-s2.0-0037351266 (requires institutional sign-in at Scopus site) 74 CitationsAbstract
This research examines longitudinally associations between family risk factors and child and parent depression in 302 urban, low-income, African American adolescents (ages 9-15) and their parents across 2 waves of data collection. Diagnostic data revealed that 7.3% of parents and 3.0% of children at Time 1 and 5.4% of parents and 2.8% of children at Time 2 were clinically depressed. Regression analyses revealed that changes in family functioning were concurrently associated with changes in depression for both children and parents. Specifically, increases in conflict and decreases in parental monitoring were associated with increases in child depressive symptomatology, and increases in conflict and decreases in positive parenting were associated with increases in parental depressive symptomatology. Findings are discussed within a framework of understanding family protective factors and the prevention of depression.
Author List
Sagrestano LM, Paikoff RL, Holmbeck GN, Fendrich MAuthor
Michael Fendrich PhD Professor in the Emergency Medicine department at Medical College of WisconsinMESH terms used to index this publication - Major topics in bold
AdolescentAnxiety
Chicago
Child
Child of Impaired Parents
Depression
Family Relations
Female
HIV Infections
Humans
Male
Parenting
Personality Assessment
Personality Inventory
Risk Factors
Urban Population
