ArticleJournal of affective disorders2018
Family functioning as perceived by parents and young offspring at high and low risk for depression.
Article in Journal of affective disorders, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 21 papers.
What it found
Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.
The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.
The trial behind it
Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.
Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.
Who cites it
21 citing papers in PubMed.
- Parent-Adolescent Mobile Phone Addiction and Mental Health: Actor-Partner Effects in 4,633 Chinese Dyads.Psychology research and behavior management · 2026Article
- Alexithymia and Empathy in Parent-Youth Dyads: An Actor-Partner Interdependence Model Analysis.PsyCh journal · 2025Article
- Relationships Between Adolescent Perception of Family Functioning and Affective Symptomatology.JAACAP open · 2025Article
- Family functioning in families with 11-year-old children at familial high risk of schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and population-based controls: The Danish High Risk and Resilience Study VIA 11.Psychological medicine · 2025Article
- Longitudinal trajectories and risk factors of insomnia symptoms among Chinese bus drivers.Frontiers in public health · 2025Article
- Hispanic adolescents' internalizing symptoms and positive family functioning: A bidirectional examination of associations over time.Journal of family psychology : JFP : journal of the Division of Family Psychology of the American Psychological Association (Division 43) · 2024Article
- Translation, Cultural Adaptation, and Psychometric Validation of the European Portuguese Version of the Iceland-Expressive Family Functioning Questionnaire (ICE-EFFQ).Journal of family nursing · 2024Article
- Family Functioning, Maternal Depression, and Adolescent Cognitive Flexibility and Its Associations with Adolescent Depression: A Cross-Sectional Study.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2024Article
- Depression in the next generation is related with maternal behaviors: A cross-comparison by alternating rat's mother care.PloS one · 2023Article
- Mental health in children of parents being treated by specialised psychiatric services.Scandinavian journal of public health · 2022Article
- COVID-19 Pandemic-Related Restrictions: Factors That May Affect Perinatal Maternal Mental Health and Implications for Infant Development.Frontiers in pediatrics · 2022Review
- Parenting style and its effect on eating disorders and substance abuse across the young population.Discover psychology · 2022Article
- Family Functioning in Families Affected by Parental Mental Illness: Parent, Child, and Clinician Ratings.International journal of environmental research and public health · 2021Article
- Perceived family adaptability and cohesion and depressive symptoms: A comparison of adolescents and parents during COVID-19 pandemic.Journal of affective disorders · 2021Article
- Linking Foster Family Characteristics and Mental Health Symptoms of Youth in Care.Journal of child and family studies · 2021Article
- Relationships between family functioning, parenting and peer victimization in adolescent depression: A cross-sectional study.Northern clinics of Istanbul · 2021Article
- Perceived Support and Sense of Social Belonging in Young Adults Who Have a Parent With a Mental Illness.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2021Article
- Associations of Family Functioning and Social Support With Psychopathology in Children of Mentally Ill Parents: Multilevel Analyses From Different Rating Perspectives.Frontiers in psychology · 2021Article
- Application of the actor-partner interdependence model in parent-adolescent emotion regulation and depression.Journal of affective disorders · 2020Article
- Higher Rates of Sleep Disturbance Among Offspring of Parents With Recurrent Depression Compared to Offspring of Nondepressed Parents.Journal of pediatric psychology · 2020Article
Corrections and comments
PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.
Authors and funding
5 authors.
Funding
Abstract
backgroundFamily dysfunction has been proposed as one of the environmental mechanisms whereby risk of depression is transmitted from mothers to their children. Using our sample of offspring at high and low familial risk for depression, we hypothesized that: a) high-risk offspring (n = 79) and their mothers will report more extensive family dysfunction than low-risk offspring (n = 82) and their mothers, b) family dysfunction will predict the extent of offspring's depressive symptoms, and c) family dysfunction will mediate the impact of mother's depression on offspring's depressive symptoms.
methodsThe study enrolled 161 offspring of parents who, in a previous study, were ascertained to have either childhood onset mood disorder or no history of a major psychiatric disorder. Parents completed questionnaires and a clinical interview about themselves, their offspring, and the family, while offspring also completed questionnaires about themselves and the family.
resultsWe found support for all three hypotheses. The significant indirect effect between maternal depression and offspring depressive symptoms was driven primarily by offspring's, but not mothers', reports of family dysfunction. LIMITATIONS: Although our assessment of mother's early history of depression was done in a previous study, it is important to note that our results do not inform about causality because of the present study's cross-sectional nature.
conclusionsThe results highlight the importance of detecting and treating family dysfunction, particularly via offspring report, as one way to lower the risk of depression transmission from mothers to their children.
Indexed as
Identifiers
What OpenQuestion holds
Registered trials
Read under generation 80e0d062 · epoch 390. Bibliography from PubMed, PubMed Central and OpenAlex; grants from NIH RePORTER; trial links from ClinicalTrials.gov; estimates, votes and beliefs from the OpenQuestion graph.