ArticleChild psychiatry and human development2020
Risk of Depression in the Offspring of Parents with Depression: The Role of Emotion Regulation, Cognitive Style, Parenting and Life Events.
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- Moderators and mediators of the relationship between parental depression and children's emotion dysregulation: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2025Pooled it
- Protective factors enhancing resilience in children of parents with a mental illness: a systematic review.Frontiers in psychology · 2023Pooled it
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- Emotion regulation and social information processing as targets of a guided selective prevention app for emerging adults with a history of adverse childhood experiences: A randomised controlled trial.Internet interventions · 2026Article
- Multimodal assessment of emotion regulation in children of parents with a mental illness.European child & adolescent psychiatry · 2026Article
- Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Children and Adolescents: The Role of Parental Mental Illnesses: A Cross-Sectional Study.Health science reports · 2026Article
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- The effects of parental adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) and childhood threat and deprivation on adolescent depression and anxiety: an analysis of the longitudinal study of Australian children.Epidemiology and psychiatric sciences · 2025Article
- Association Between Physical Activity, Quality of Life, Barriers to Physical Activity, and Mental Health in Chilean Adolescents: The MOV-ES Study.Healthcare (Basel, Switzerland) · 2025Article
- Language use in depressed and non-depressed mothers and their adolescent offspring.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
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- Empathy and psychopathology in children and adolescents: the role of parental mental illness and emotion regulation.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2024Article
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- Parent-child agreement on children's psychopathology and the impact of parental depression.International journal of methods in psychiatric research · 2023Article
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- Biased Maintenance of Attention on Sad Faces in Clinically Depressed Youth: An Eye-Tracking Study.Child psychiatry and human development · 2023Article
- Clinical Trial Data: Both Parents Having Psychiatric Symptoms as Risk Factor for Children's Mental Illness.Children (Basel, Switzerland) · 2022Article
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Abstract
Children of depressed parents are at heightened risk for developing depression, yet relatively little is known about the specific mechanisms responsible. Since preventive interventions for this risk group show small effects which diminish overtime, it is crucial to uncover the key risk factors for depression. This study compared various potential mechanisms in children of depressed (high-risk; n = 74) versus non-depressed (low-risk; n = 37) parents and explored mediators of parental depression and risk in offspring. A German sample of N = 111 boys and girls aged 8 to 17 years were compared regarding children's (i) symptoms of depression and general psychopathology, (ii) emotion regulation strategies, (iii) attributional style, (iv) perceived parenting style and (v) life events. Children in the high-risk group showed significantly more symptoms of depression and general psychopathology, less adaptive emotion regulation strategies, fewer positive life events and fewer positive parenting strategies in comparison with the low-risk group. Group differences in positive and negative attributional style were small and not statistically significant in a MANOVA test. Maladaptive emotion regulation strategies and negative life events were identified as partial mediators of the association between parental depression and children's risk of depression. The study highlights the elevated risk of depression in children of depressed parents and provides empirical support for existing models of the mechanisms underlying transmission. Interestingly, the high-risk group was characterised by a lack of protective rather than increased vulnerability factors. These results are crucial for developing more effective preventive interventions for this high-risk population.
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