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27-05-2019 | Empirical Research

Coping and Stress Reactivity as Moderators of Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Youth’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms

Auteurs: Allison Vreeland, Alexandra H. Bettis, Michelle M. Reising, Jennifer P. Dunbar, Kelly H. Watson, Meredith A. Gruhn, Bruce E. Compas

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 8/2019

Abstract

Youth’s responses to stress are a central feature of risk and resilience across development. The current study examined whether youth coping and stress reactivity moderate the association of current maternal depressive symptoms with youth’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms. Mothers (M_age = 41.58, SD = 6.18) with a wide range of depressive symptoms and their children ages 9–15 (M_age = 12.25, SD = 1.89, 45.3% girls) completed measures of youth symptoms and coping and automatic responses to stress. Mothers also completed a self-report measure of depressive symptoms. Youth’s primary and secondary control coping, stress reactivity, and involuntary disengagement moderated the association between current maternal depressive symptoms and youth symptoms. Maternal depressive symptoms were associated with youth’s internalizing and externalizing symptoms when youth used low as opposed to high levels of primary and secondary control coping. Conversely, maternal depressive symptoms were associated with youth symptoms for youth with high levels of stress reactivity and involuntary disengagement. The findings suggest interventions focused on improving the use of primary and secondary control coping skills and reducing reactivity and involuntary disengagement to stress may benefit youth with mothers who are experiencing high levels of depressive symptoms.

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Mother-reports of youth primary control coping (β = −0.15, p < 0.05), secondary control coping (β = −0.16, p < 0.05), and stress reactivity (β = 0.15, p < 0.05) all significantly moderated the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and youth’s internalizing symptoms (β = −0.30 to 0.15, ps < 0.01). Youth-report of child primary control coping (β = −0.31, p < 0.01), secondary control coping (β = −0.23, p < 0.01), stress reactivity (β = 0.15, p < 0.01), and involuntary disengagement (β = 0.28, p < 0.05) all significantly moderated the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and youth’s internalizing symptoms. Neither mother reports of disengagement coping (β = 0.08, p = 0.65), involuntary disengagement coping (β = 0.16, p = 0.13) nor youth reports of disengagement coping (β = 0.01, p = 0.96) were significant moderators of the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and youth’s internalizing symptoms.

Mother-report of youth primary control coping (β = −0.02, p = 0.78) and stress reactivity (β = 0.08, p = 0.28) did not significantly predict the relationship between maternal depression and youth’s externalizing problems. Mother-report of youth secondary control coping (β = −0.19, p < 0.05) did significantly moderate the relationship between maternal depression and youth’s externalizing symptoms. Youth-report of child primary control coping (β = −0.25, p < 0.01), secondary control coping (β = −0.28, p < 0.01), and stress reactivity (β = 0.19, p < 0.01) all significantly moderated the relationship between maternal depression and youth’s externalizing symptoms. Neither mother report of disengagement coping (β = 0.18, p = 0.33), involuntary disengagement coping (β = 0.08, p = 0.62) nor youth report of disengagement coping (β = 0.08, p = 0.67) or involuntary disengagement coping (β = 0.19, p = 0.28) were significant moderators of the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and children’s externalizing symptoms.

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Titel: Coping and Stress Reactivity as Moderators of Maternal Depressive Symptoms and Youth’s Internalizing and Externalizing Symptoms
Auteurs: Allison Vreeland
Alexandra H. Bettis
Michelle M. Reising
Jennifer P. Dunbar
Kelly H. Watson
Meredith A. Gruhn
Bruce E. Compas
Publicatiedatum: 27-05-2019
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 8/2019
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-019-01033-y

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