ArticleDepression and anxiety2021
Transactional patterns of depressive symptoms between mothers and adolescents: The role of emotion regulation.
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- [Research progress on the relationship between maternal depression and adolescent depressive symptoms and family-based interventions].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2025Review
- Interpersonal emotion regulation and depressive symptoms in parent-adolescent dyads: A daily-diary investigation.Emotion (Washington, D.C.) · 2025Article
- Parental depressive symptoms and child psychopathology: Indirect effects of parenting-specific emotion regulation and emotion socialization.Family relations · 2025Article
- Transactional models of depression via caregiver-child interactions: Evaluating conflict resolution as a source of resilience in adversity-exposed families.Children and youth services review · 2024Article
- Co-occurring Stress Trajectories and the Longitudinal Coupling of Internalizing Symptoms in Parent-Adolescent Dyads.Research on child and adolescent psychopathology · 2023Article
- [Association between maternal job burnout and adolescent depression: the chain mediating effect of maternal depression and parenting style].Zhongguo dang dai er ke za zhi = Chinese journal of contemporary pediatrics · 2023Article
- Association of maternal mental health and drinking/smoking with adolescents' mental health based on the Korea National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey.Frontiers in psychiatry · 2023Article
- Specific Pathways from Parental Distress Reactions to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Youths' Reactions to Negative Life Events.Journal of psychopathology and behavioral assessment · 2022Article
- From parents to children and back again: Bidirectional processes in the transmission and development of depression and anxiety.Depression and anxiety · 2021Article
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Abstract
backgroundDepression is a highly prevalent, debilitating disorder that runs in families. Yet, empirical support for bidirectional mechanisms linking mother-adolescent depression symptoms remains limited. This study examined longitudinal bidirectional relations among emotion regulation (ER) constructs and depressive symptoms among mother-adolescent dyads over time. Pathways for girls and boys were explored separately, given extant research on sex differences in the intergenerational transmission of depression.
methodsAdolescent (n = 232; M = 15.02 years, SD = 0.95; 44% female)-mother dyads, drawn from a longitudinal study on the development of risky behaviors, completed annual assessments of depressive symptoms and facets of ER over 4 years. Panel modeling examined lagged and cross-lagged effects of mother-adolescent depressive symptoms and ER constructs over time, in a multigroup model of boys and girls.
resultsAmong girls, higher baseline maternal depression scores predicted increased adolescent ER difficulties (std. est. = -.42, p < .001) in turn, predicting increased adolescent depressive symptoms (std. est. = -.33, p = .002) and subsequent maternal ER difficulties (std. est. = .39, p = .002). The indirect effect of maternal depressive symptoms→adolescent ER→adolescent depressive symptoms→maternal ER was significant (ind. eff. = .10, 95% confidence interval [>.001, .19]) for girls, but not boys.
conclusionImplications for interrupting intergenerational cycles of depressive symptoms and emotion dysregulation are discussed.
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