Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms and Stressfull Life Events Among Male and Female Adolescents in Divorced and Nondivorced Families  

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Conger, Rand D. ; Natsuaki, Misaki N. ; Xiaojia Ge

Jenis: Article from Journal - ilmiah internasional
Dalam koleksi: Development and Psychopathology vol. 18 no. 1 (2006), page 253-274.
Topik: Divorced people - United States - Family Relationships; depressive symptoms; divorce and non - divorce; stressful life; male and female adolescents
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This 11 - year longitudinal study models the trajectories of depressive symptoms among approximately 550 females and males raised in divorced and nondivorced families in the rural Midwest. Using multilevel analyses, we demonstrate that, first, depressive symptoms changed according to a curvilinear pattern, especially for females; they increased during early to midadolescence and then declined in late adolescence to young adulthood. Second, compared with males, females experienced a greater number of depressive symptoms in adolescence and early adulthood. Third, children who experienced parental divorce by age 15 manifested a sharper increase in depressive symptoms compared to those from nondivorced families. Fourth, stressful life events children experienced shortly after parental divorce mediated the effect of parental divorce on depressive symptoms. Fifth and finally, time - varying stressful life events, particularly those related to relationship and personal loss, were significantly associated with the trajectories of depressive symptoms.

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