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Association between Depressive Symptoms and Negative Dependent Life Events from Late Childhood to Adolescence

Auteurs: Daniel P. Johnson, Mark A. Whisman, Robin P. Corley, John K. Hewitt, Soo Hyun Rhee

Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology | Uitgave 8/2012

Abstract

The association between stressful life events and depression has been consistently supported in the literature; however, studies of the developmental trajectories of these constructs and the nature of their association over time are limited. We examined trajectories of depressive symptoms and negative dependent life events and the associations between these constructs in a sample of 916 youth assessed annually from age 9 to 16, using latent growth curve modeling. Youth depressive symptoms, as rated by youth, parents, and teachers, decreased from late childhood into adolescence, whereas rates of youth-rated life events did not change significantly over time. Initial levels of depressive symptoms were positively associated with initial levels of life events. Furthermore, after controlling for the initial association between the two constructs, increases in depressive symptoms (as assessed by parents and youth) were positively associated with increases in life events over time. The study builds on prior research by focusing specifically on negative dependent life events, examining results across multiple informants, and employing latent growth curve modeling to evaluate associations between trajectories of life events and depressive symptoms in a longitudinal adolescent sample. Additional studies employing latent growth modeling to examine the changes in this association during adolescence are needed.

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For clarity, “SLEs” (stressful life events) is used in this report as a general term in discussing the stress-depression literature, in order to encompass the various definitions of life events in the literature. “NDLEs” will be used to indicate a specific category of SLEs, negative dependent life events, as examined in the current study.

Given the modest correlations across raters of depressive symptoms, we examined the possibility of creating a multiple indicator latent variable for depressive symptoms. However, measurement invariance across individual time points is a requirement for the creation of a multiple-indicator model (Muthén and Muthén 2003), and this was not achieved in our data.

Models examining the CBCL and TRF were also conducted with girls and boys in separate groups, fixing parameter estimates to be equal across groups. The results were very similar to those from the models in which the entire sample was in one group, with the exception of the Slope-Slope correlation in the CBCL latent trait growth model. This parameter estimate was a similar value in both models, but was only statistically significant in the one-group model.

For clarity and consistency, the phrase “initial levels” will be used herein to indicate the variance stable with initial levels of a construct (e.g. depressive symptoms or NDLEs).

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Titel: Association between Depressive Symptoms and Negative Dependent Life Events from Late Childhood to Adolescence
Auteurs: Daniel P. Johnson
Mark A. Whisman
Robin P. Corley
John K. Hewitt
Soo Hyun Rhee
Publicatiedatum: 01-11-2012
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Research on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology / Uitgave 8/2012
Print ISSN: 2730-7166
Elektronisch ISSN: 2730-7174
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10802-012-9642-7

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