Developmental Pathways to Depressive Symptoms in Adolescence: A Multi-Wave Prospective Study of Negative Emotionality, Stressors, and Anxiety

There is a small body of research that has connected individual differences in negative urgency, the tendency to report rash actions in response to negative emotions, with self-report depressive and anxiety symptoms. Despite the conceptual overlap of negative urgency with negative emotionality, the tendency to experience frequent and intense negative emotions, even fewer studies have examined whether the association of negative urgency with internalizing symptoms hold when controlling for negative emotionality. In the current study, we estimated the bivariate association between negative urgency and internalizing symptoms, tested whether they remained significant after partialling out negative emotionality, and tested whether these effects generalized to real-time experiences of negative emotions. We used data from five independent samples of high school and college students, assessed with global self-report ( n = 1,297) and ecological momentary assessment ( n = 195). Results indicated that in global self-report data, negative urgency was moderately and positively associated with depressive and anxiety symptoms, and the partial association with depressive symptoms (but not anxiety symptoms) controlling for negative emotionality remained significant and moderate in magnitude. This pattern was replicated in ecological momentary assessment data. Negative urgency may convey risk for depressive symptoms, independent of the effects of negative emotionality.

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Maternal stress and depressive symptoms and adolescents’ body mass index: a prospective study

BMC Public Health ◽

10.1186/s12889-021-10721-z ◽

2021 ◽

Vol 21 (1) ◽

Author(s):

Maaike Koning ◽

Jacqueline Vink ◽

Tommy L. S. Visscher ◽

Junilla Larsen

Keyword(s):

Mental Health ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Perceived Stress ◽

Maternal Stress ◽

Maternal Mental Health ◽

Cross Sectional ◽

Domain Specific ◽

General Stress ◽

Adolescent Offspring

Abstract Background Growing evidence suggests that maternal mental health issues are associated with (young) children’s weight outcomes. However, most studies have been limited by cross-sectional designs and have been aimed at (younger) children. The current prospective study focuses on the link between maternal mental health (i.e., psychological stress and depressive symptoms) and adolescents’ zBMI development. Methods The participants in the present study were part of wave 1 and 2 of a longitudinal study on Dutch adolescents’ and their parents’ health behavior. Adolescents (aged 10–14) and their parents were recruited through six secondary schools in the South and the East of the Netherlands. For this study, we only included biological mothers and their adolescent children who participated in both waves, with data on the main measures in both waves, leaving a final sample of 336 biological mother-child dyads. Adolescents height and weight were measured, and both parents and adolescents filled in validated questionnaires on perceived stress and depressive symptoms and answered additional questions concerning domain-specific stress. Regression analyses were performed in R to examine longitudinal links between maternal stress and depressive symptoms at baseline (T1) and adolescents’ BMI standard deviation scores (zBMI) 6 months later (T2), corrected for baseline zBMI and covariates. Results Maternal general perceived stress (β = .20, p = .002) at T1 preceded higher adolescents’ zBMI at T2, after controlling for baseline zBMI and other covariates, whereas maternal depressive symptoms at T1 (β = −.05, p = .44) and other domain-specific stress did not (maternal financial stress, maternal stress at work, maternal stress at home). Additionally, lower educational level among adolescents (β = .16, p = .001) and adolescent depressive symptoms (β = .16, p = .001) was associated with a higher zBMI at T2. Conclusions Results suggest that maternal general stress, but not depressive symptoms, may influence adolescents’ weight development. Our findings warrant future investigation on whether and how general stress among mothers may predict weight increases of their adolescent offspring.

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Surface-acting emotional labor predicts depressive symptoms among health care workers over a 2-year prospective study

International Archives of Occupational and Environmental Health ◽

10.1007/s00420-020-01585-8 ◽

2020 ◽

Author(s):

Chunhui Suh ◽

Laura Punnett

Keyword(s):

Health Care ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Health Care Workers ◽

Emotional Labor ◽

Surface Acting ◽

Care Workers

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Temperament, Repetitive Negative Thinking, and Depressive Symptoms in Early Adolescence: a Prospective Study

Journal of Psychopathology and Behavioral Assessment ◽

10.1007/s10862-017-9624-8 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 305-317 ◽

Cited By ~ 5

Author(s):

Patricia Bijttebier ◽

Margot Bastin ◽

Sabine Nelis ◽

Sofie Weyn ◽

Koen Luyckx ◽

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Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Prospective Study ◽

Early Adolescence ◽

Repetitive Negative Thinking ◽

Negative Thinking ◽

A Prospective Study

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Parallel development of risk behaviors in adolescence: Potential pathways to co-occurrence

International Journal of Behavioral Development ◽

10.1177/0165025412442870 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 36 (4) ◽

pp. 247-257 ◽

Cited By ~ 32

Author(s):

David Y. C. Huang ◽

H. Isabella Lanza ◽

Debra A. Murphy ◽

Yih-Ing Hser

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Alcohol Use ◽

Sexual Risk ◽

Risk Behaviors ◽

Risk Taking ◽

Developmental Trajectories ◽

Marijuana Use ◽

Longitudinal Survey ◽

Developmental Pathways ◽

Sexual Risk Taking

This study used data from 5,382 adolescents from the 1997 United States (US) National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY97) to investigate developmental pathways of alcohol use, marijuana use, sexual risk behaviors, and delinquency across ages 14 to 20; examine interrelationships among these risk behaviors across adolescence; and evaluate association between risk behavior trajectories and depressive symptoms in adolescence. Group-based dual trajectory modeling, examining trajectories of two outcomes over time, revealed strong interrelationships among developmental trajectories of the four risk behaviors, and indicated potential pathways to co-occurring risk behaviors. Adolescents with higher levels of alcohol use or marijuana use were more likely to engage in higher levels of early sexual risk-taking and delinquency. Moreover, adolescents involved in higher levels of delinquency were at higher risk for engaging in early sexual risk-taking. Also, belonging to the highest risk trajectory of any of the four risk behaviors was positively associated with depressive symptoms in adolescence.

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