GÓMEZ BAYA, DIEGO, Mendoza, Ramon , Camacho, Ines , de Matos, Margarida Gaspar
No
J. Fam. Issues
Article
Científica
1.607
0.837
01/05/2018
000432086900012
2-s2.0-85046703872
This study aimed to examine longitudinal associations between the perceived quality of family relationships and self-reported depressive symptoms during middle adolescence. A 2-year follow-up study, with three assessments at 1-year intervals, was conducted. A total of 525 Spanish adolescents completed paper-based self-report assessments, which included the 10-item Child Depression Inventory and a brief Likert-type scale to measure the quality of the relationships with their father and their mother separately. The results indicated that a decline in the quality of both adolescent-father and adolescent-mother relationships were related to an increase in depressive symptoms during middle adolescence. Furthermore, adolescent-father relationships were found to be worse for girls than for boys and were observed to be associated with gender differences in depressive symptoms after the follow-up. The results provide longitudinal evidence on the importance of parent-adolescent relationships and gender differences in depressive symptoms during adolescence.
family; parent-adolescent relationship; depression; adolescence; longitudinal