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Specific Pathways from Parental Distress Reactions to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Youths’ Reactions to Negative Life Events

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The current multimethod longitudinal study examines how parents’ distress reactions to adolescents’ negative emotions may shape youths’ own perceptions of negative life events and subsequent increases in depressive symptomology. Ninety adolescents (41 girls, 49 boys, average age = 16.5 years old) and their parents were assessed over three timepoints. We found that greater parent-reported distress reactions to adolescents’ emotions predicted subsequent increase in youths’ own self-reported negative reactions to stressful experiences over a two-week period, which in turn predicted steeper increases in youth-reported depressive symptoms across this same two-week period. Moreover, youths’ negative reactions mediated the relation between parent emotion socialization and increases in adolescent depressive symptoms. These findings support the use of interventions that simultaneously target parent and child distress to prevent the onset of adolescent depression.

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  1. As adolescent participants and their parents/guardians were specifically asked to report their sex, the term “sex” (which refers to a biological construct) is used throughout the manuscript rather than “gender” (which refers to the social roles associated with sex).

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This project was supported in part by a grant from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA18647) awarded to Carl W. Lejuez and by a Dean’s Research Initiative grant through the College of Behavioral & Social Sciences at the University of Maryland award to Julia W. Felton.

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  2. School of Integrative Studies (Childhood Studies) and Human Development & Family Science, George Mason University, Fairfax, VA, USA

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  3. Department of Counseling, Higher Education, and Special Education, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

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  4. Department of Psychology, University of Maryland, College Park, MD, USA

    Jude Cassidy & Andrea Chronis-Tuscano

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Felton, J.W., Shadur, J.M., Havewala, M. et al. Specific Pathways from Parental Distress Reactions to Adolescent Depressive Symptoms: The Mediating Role of Youths’ Reactions to Negative Life Events. J Psychopathol Behav Assess 44, 750–762 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10862-022-09954-y

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