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01-06-2010 | Empirical research

Identifying Trajectories of Adolescents’ Depressive Phenomena: An Examination of Early Risk Factors

Auteurs: James J. Mazza, Charles B. Fleming, Robert D. Abbott, Kevin P. Haggerty, Richard F. Catalano

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 6/2010

Abstract

Few studies have examined risk factors of childhood and early adolescent depressive symptomatology trajectories. This study examined self-report depressive symptomatology across a 6-year time period from 2nd to 8th grade to identify latent groups of individuals with similar patterns of depressive phenomena in a sample of 951 children (440 girls, 511 boys). Analyses, using semiparametric group modeling (SGM), identified 5 trajectory groups for girls and boys: low depressed stables, low depressed risers, mildly depressed stables, moderately depressed changers, and moderately depressed risers. Individual risk factors, with the exception of shy/withdrawn behavior, were significantly different across trajectory group membership for boys and girls, as was low-income status for boys. Boys in the low depressed and mildly depressed stable trajectory groups had significantly higher levels of antisocial behavior, attention problems, and lower social competency compared to girls in similar groups. These results suggest that universal prevention programs implemented in early elementary school that target selected risk factors may be helpful in reducing future adolescent mental health problems, specifically depressive symptomatology.

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Since some of the students in this sample are part of the program condition in a prevention experiment, preliminary analyses were conducted to examine whether the program affected the predictive relationships among experimental and control groups. The results indicated that the covariance structures were not different between experimental and control groups, nor did depressive symptoms trajectory group membership differ by experimental condition. Based on these results, the data for the experimental and control groups were combined in the subsequent analyses.

It should be noted that SGM was also done using Mplus, allowing the slopes to be free rather than fixed (i.e., Nagin 1999). Results of the Mplus analyses were similar to the Nagin analyses, and given the parsimonious structure of the Nagin method, we choose this methodology.

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Titel: Identifying Trajectories of Adolescents’ Depressive Phenomena: An Examination of Early Risk Factors
Auteurs: James J. Mazza
Charles B. Fleming
Robert D. Abbott
Kevin P. Haggerty
Richard F. Catalano
Publicatiedatum: 01-06-2010
Uitgeverij: Springer US
Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 6/2010
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-009-9406-z

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