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Gender Differences in the Association between Maternal Depressed Mood and Child Depressive Phenomena from Grade 3 through Grade 10

Auteurs: Rebecca C. Cortes, Charles B. Fleming, Richard F. Catalano, Eric C. Brown

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 5/2006

Abstract

This study reports on relationships among gender, maternal depressed mood, and children’s trajectories of depressive phenomena across middle childhood and early adolescence. It tested the hypothesis that, compared to boys, girls become increasingly vulnerable to maternal depression as they enter adolescence. The study sample consisted of 834 families from 10 Pacific Northwest schools that participated in the Raising Healthy Children project. Maternal depressed mood and children’s depressive phenomena were assessed annually during an 8-year period that spanned Grade 3 through Grade 10 for the children. Mean scores for girls’ depressive phenomena increased relative to those for boys as children matured. Maternal depressed mood was significantly and positively associated with children’s level of depressive phenomena. An interaction effect of gender and maternal depressed mood on acceleration in children’s depressive phenomena indicated that girls’ trajectories of depressive phenomena were sustained in the presence of maternal depression while those of boys declined in the presence of maternal depression.

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Depression was not a primary target variable of the intervention, and there were no level differences, by experimental condition, in child depression in 3rd through 10th grades. All models used in the present analyses were run separately by experimental condition. Results were similar in terms of direction and magnitude of associations across conditions and supported pooling participants from both conditions in our analyses.

Due to the structure of our data and the extent of missing data on maternal depression across time points and on child depression at the first and last time points, secondary analyses were run using imputation of 10 complete data sets augmented with random error. The results were averaged and standard errors were estimated that took into account both within- and between-imputation variability. In all cases, nonimputed results were similar to those based on multiple imputation in terms of the direction and significance levels of tested fixed effects. Thus, results presented here are based on nonimputed data.

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Titel: Gender Differences in the Association between Maternal Depressed Mood and Child Depressive Phenomena from Grade 3 through Grade 10
Auteurs: Rebecca C. Cortes
Charles B. Fleming
Richard F. Catalano
Eric C. Brown
Publicatiedatum: 01-10-2006
Uitgeverij: Kluwer Academic Publishers-Plenum Publishers
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 5/2006
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-006-9083-0

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