ArticleJournal of affective disorders2021
Individuals' marital instability mediates the association of their perceived childhood parental affection predicting adulthood depression across 18 years.
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- Self-esteem mediates child abuse predicting adulthood anxiety, depression, and substance use symptoms 18 years later.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Daily stress reactivity and risk appraisal mediates childhood parental abuse predicting adulthood psychopathology severity: An 18-year longitudinal mediation analysis.Journal of affective disorders · 2024Article
- Positive reappraisal coping mediates the relationship between parental abuse and lack of affection on adulthood generalized anxiety severity.Journal of anxiety disorders · 2024Article
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- Focus on and venting of negative emotion mediates the 18-year bi-directional relations between major depressive disorder and generalized anxiety disorder diagnoses.Journal of affective disorders · 2022Article
- When Childhood Control Slips Away: How Parental Affection and Abuse Shape Adult Anxiety and Depression.Clinical psychology & psychotherapyArticle
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Abstract
backgroundParenting theories propose that lack of childhood parental affection confers increased vulnerability to heightened adulthood depression. However, only a few prospective studies have examined this topic, and no studies included mediators of the childhood parental affection-adulthood depression connection.
objectiveThis study examined parenting, and interpersonal theories by determining if participants' (n= 2,825) mid-life marital instability mediated their perceived childhood parental affection predicting depressive symptoms in adulthood across 18 years.
methodsChildhood maternal and paternal affection (Parental Support Scale) was measured at Time 1 (T1). Depressive symptoms (Composite International Diagnostic Interview-Short Form) were measured at T1, Time 2 (T2), and Time 3 (T3), spaced approximately nine years apart. Marital instability (Marital Instability Index) was measured at T1 and T2. Structural equation modeling analyses were conducted to test whether perceived childhood parental affection would independently negatively predict T3 depressive symptoms, and if participants' mid-life marital instability mediated those relations. All analyses adjusted for prior levels of mediator and outcome variables.
resultsLower perceived childhood maternal and paternal affection predicted higher T3 depressive symptoms. Lower childhood maternal and paternal affection predicted higher T2 marital instability. Greater marital instability in turn predicted elevated T3 depression. Individuals' marital instability mediated those associations, by accounting for 17-20% of the total effects.
conclusionFindings highlight the importance of perceived childhood parental affection to nurture a strong marital bond to reduce the odds of developing major depressive disorder in middle-to-late adulthood.
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