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Parental Knowledge/Monitoring and Depressive Symptoms During Adolescence: Protective Factor or Spurious Association?
- Source :
- Research on child and adolescent psychopathology, vol 50, iss 7, Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
- Publication Year :
- 2022
- Publisher :
- Springer Science and Business Media LLC, 2022.
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Abstract
- Parental knowledge/monitoring is negatively associated with adolescents’ depressive symptoms, suggesting monitoring could be a target for prevention and treatment. However, no study has rigorously addressed the possibility that this association is spurious, leaving the clinical and etiological implications unclear. The goal of this study was to conduct a more rigorous test of whether knowledge/monitoring is causally related to depressive symptoms. 7940 youth (ages 10.5–15.6 years, 49% female) at 21 sites across the U.S. completed measures of parental knowledge/monitoring and their own depressive symptoms at four waves 11–22 weeks apart during the COVID-19 pandemic. First, monitoring and depression were examined in standard, between-family regression models. Second, within-family changes in monitoring and depression between assessments were examined in first differenced regressions. Because the latter models control for stable, between-family differences, they comprise a stronger test of a causal relation. In standard, between-family models, parental monitoring and youths’ depressive symptoms were negatively associated (standardized \documentclass[12pt]{minimal} \usepackage{amsmath} \usepackage{wasysym} \usepackage{amsfonts} \usepackage{amssymb} \usepackage{amsbsy} \usepackage{mathrsfs} \usepackage{upgreek} \setlength{\oddsidemargin}{-69pt} \begin{document}$$\beta$$\end{document}β= −0.22, 95% CI = [−0.25, −0.20], p
- Subjects :
- Parents
Male
Pediatric
Adolescent
Depression
Parental monitoring
Prevention
COVID-19
Protective Factors
Article
Adolescence
Brain Disorders
Psychiatry and Mental health
Mental Health
Clinical Research
Developmental and Educational Psychology
Humans
2.1 Biological and endogenous factors
Female
Aetiology
Child
Pandemics
Subjects
Details
- ISSN :
- 27307174 and 27307166
- Volume :
- 50
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....9812db092608002d7ac42b90055f1727