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. 2003 Mar;17(1):108-20.

A longitudinal examination of familial risk factors for depression among inner-city African American adolescents

Lynda M Sagrestano  1 , Roberta L Paikoff, Grayson N Holmbeck, Michael Fendrich
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A longitudinal examination of familial risk factors for depression among inner-city African American adolescents

Lynda M Sagrestano et al. J Fam Psychol. 2003 Mar.

Abstract

This research examines longitudinally associations between family risk factors and child and parent depression in 302 urban, low-income, African American adolescents (ages 9-15) and their parents across 2 waves of data collection. Diagnostic data revealed that 7.3% of parents and 3.0% of children at Time 1 and 5.4% of parents and 2.8% of children at Time 2 were clinically depressed. Regression analyses revealed that changes in family functioning were concurrently associated with changes in depression for both children and parents. Specifically, increases in conflict and decreases in parental monitoring were associated with increases in child depressive symptomatology, and increases in conflict and decreases in positive parenting were associated with increases in parental depressive symptomatology. Findings are discussed within a framework of understanding family protective factors and the prevention of depression.

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