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17-06-2023 | Empirical Research

Personal identity, somatic symptoms, and symptom-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in adolescence: Examining between- and within-person associations and the role of depressive symptoms

Auteurs: Leni Raemen, Laurence Claes, Tinne Buelens, Lore Vankerckhoven, Lukas Van Oudenhove, Koen Luyckx

Gepubliceerd in: Journal of Youth and Adolescence | Uitgave 9/2023

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Abstract

Recent literature highlights the complex relationship between personal identity and body-related pathology, yet there is a lack of integrative longitudinal research on the relationship between identity and somatic symptoms. The present study investigated the longitudinal associations between identity functioning and (psychological characteristics of) somatic symptoms, and examined the role of depressive symptoms in this relationship. A total of 599 community adolescents (Time 1: 41.3% female; Mage = 14.93, SD = 1.77, range = 12–18 years) participated in three annual assessments. Using cross-lagged panel models, a bidirectional relationship between identity and (psychological characteristics of) somatic symptoms, mediated by depressive symptoms, emerged at the between-person level; whereas only a unidirectional relationship from psychological characteristics of somatic symptoms to identity functioning, mediated by depressive symptoms, emerged at the within-person level. Identity and depressive symptoms were bidirectionally related at both levels. The present study suggests that adolescent identity development is closely related to somatic and emotional distress.
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When preliminary analyses were conducted using listwise deletion instead of the expectation maximization algorithm, age was no longer significantly related to depressive symptoms at T1 (r = 0.08, p = 0.06) and to identity synthesis at T3 (r = −0.09, p = 0.07).
 
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Metagegevens
Titel
Personal identity, somatic symptoms, and symptom-related thoughts, feelings, and behaviors in adolescence: Examining between- and within-person associations and the role of depressive symptoms
Auteurs
Leni Raemen
Laurence Claes
Tinne Buelens
Lore Vankerckhoven
Lukas Van Oudenhove
Koen Luyckx
Publicatiedatum
17-06-2023
Uitgeverij
Springer US
Gepubliceerd in
Journal of Youth and Adolescence / Uitgave 9/2023
Print ISSN: 0047-2891
Elektronisch ISSN: 1573-6601
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1007/s10964-023-01811-9