TY - JOUR
T1 - Longitudinal Coupling of Depression in Parent–Adolescent Dyads
T2 - Within- and Between-Dyads Effects Over Time
AU - Griffith, Julianne M.
AU - Young, Jami F.
AU - Hankin, Benjamin L.
N1 - Funding Information:
We thank John R. Z. Abela for the significant contributions he made to this research before his untimely death.
Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2021.
PY - 2021/11
Y1 - 2021/11
N2 - In the present work, we evaluated reciprocal, within-dyads associations between parents’ and adolescents’ depressive symptoms across two independent samples (N = 327 and N = 435 dyads; approximately 85% biological mothers) assessed every 3 months for 2 years (Study 1) to 3 years (Study 2). Results of random intercept cross-lagged panel models converged to support positive contemporaneous patterns of cofluctuation in parental and adolescent depression such that within-persons deviations in parental depression were associated with same-direction within-persons deviations in adolescent depression at the same time point. In contrast, within-persons fluctuations in parental depression did not prospectively predict within-persons fluctuations in adolescent depression, or vice versa, across the follow-up period. Results held across boys and girls, as well as dyads with and without a parental history of depressive disorder. Overall, findings advance knowledge by demonstrating that after accounting for between-persons/dyads variance, parental and adolescent depression demonstrate contemporaneous cofluctuations but do not demonstrate within-dyads reciprocity over time.
AB - In the present work, we evaluated reciprocal, within-dyads associations between parents’ and adolescents’ depressive symptoms across two independent samples (N = 327 and N = 435 dyads; approximately 85% biological mothers) assessed every 3 months for 2 years (Study 1) to 3 years (Study 2). Results of random intercept cross-lagged panel models converged to support positive contemporaneous patterns of cofluctuation in parental and adolescent depression such that within-persons deviations in parental depression were associated with same-direction within-persons deviations in adolescent depression at the same time point. In contrast, within-persons fluctuations in parental depression did not prospectively predict within-persons fluctuations in adolescent depression, or vice versa, across the follow-up period. Results held across boys and girls, as well as dyads with and without a parental history of depressive disorder. Overall, findings advance knowledge by demonstrating that after accounting for between-persons/dyads variance, parental and adolescent depression demonstrate contemporaneous cofluctuations but do not demonstrate within-dyads reciprocity over time.
KW - adolescence
KW - depression
KW - intergenerational risk
KW - preregistered
KW - random intercept cross-lagged panel model
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U2 - 10.1177/2167702621998313
DO - 10.1177/2167702621998313
M3 - Article
C2 - 35003905
AN - SCOPUS:85105870349
SN - 2167-7026
VL - 9
SP - 1059
EP - 1079
JO - Clinical Psychological Science
JF - Clinical Psychological Science
IS - 6
ER -