Mechanisms and processes of relational and physical victimization, depressive symptoms, and children's relational-interdependent self-construals: Implications for peer relationships and psychopathology

2014 ◽  
Vol 26 (3) ◽  
pp. 619-634 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yoshito Kawabata ◽  
Wan-Ling Tseng ◽  
Nicki R. Crick
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Developmental Psychopathology ◽  
Relational Victimization ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Physical Victimization ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Individual Vulnerability ◽  
Interdependent Self ◽  
Peer Nominations

AbstractThis short-term longitudinal study examined the associations between relational and physical victimization and depressive symptoms, and the moderating role of school-aged children's relational-interdependent self-construals in these associations. The participants were 387 children (51.8% boys) who were in the fifth grade (M= 10.48 years,SD= 0.55) in Taiwan and followed at two time points (a 6-month interval) during a calendar year. A multiple-informant approach was used where forms of peer victimization, depressive symptoms, and relational-interdependent self-construals were assessed via peer nominations, teacher reports, and child reports, respectively. All measures had favorable psychometric properties. The results of a multigroup cross-lagged model demonstrated that relational victimization (not physical victimization) was positively predictive of subsequent depressive symptoms, and the effect was evidenced for highly interdependent children only. The opposite link was also significant, such that depressive symptoms predicted subsequent relational victimization (not physical victimization) for children who exhibited low and high levels of relational-interdependent self-construals. In contrast, physical victimization predated a lower level of depressive symptoms for highly interdependent children. These effects were unaffected by the gender of the child. The findings, especially the interactive effects of relational victimization (as a contextual factor) and relational-interdependent self-construals (as an individual vulnerability) on depressive symptoms, are discussed from a developmental psychopathology perspective.

scholarly journals Examining Reciprocal Links between Parental Autonomy-Support and Children’s Peer Preference in Mainland China

Children ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (6) ◽  
pp. 508
Author(s):  
Na Hu ◽  
Muzi Yuan ◽  
Junsheng Liu ◽  
Robert J. Coplan ◽  
Ying Zhou
Keyword(s):  
Middle Schools ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Autonomy Support ◽  
Chinese Culture ◽  
Mainland China ◽  
Supportive Parenting ◽  
Parental Autonomy Support ◽  
Parental Autonomy ◽  
Peer Preference ◽  
Peer Nominations

The present study examined the longitudinal relations between child perceptions of parental autonomy-support and peer preference in mainland China. Participants were N = 758 children (50.8% boys; Mage = 10.78 years, SD = 1.03 at Wave 1; Mage = 11.72 years, SD = 1.11 at Wave 2; Mage = 12.65 years, SD = 0.95 at Wave 3) from elementary and middle schools in Shanghai, P.R. China. Children were followed over three years from Grades 4–6 to Grades 6–8. Each year, children reported their perceived maternal/paternal autonomy-support and peer preference (being well-liked among peers) was measured via peer nominations. Among the results, peer preference positively predicted later perceptions of maternal and paternal autonomy-supportive parenting, whereas autonomy-supportive parenting did not significantly predict later peer preference. Results are discussed in terms of the interactions between parental autonomy-supportive parenting and children’s peer relationships in Chinese culture.

scholarly journals The Interactive Effects of Child Maltreatment and Adolescent Pregnancy on Late-Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

2020 ◽  
Vol 48 (9) ◽  
pp. 1223-1237
Author(s):  
Justin Russotti ◽  
Elizabeth D. Handley ◽  
Fred A. Rogosch ◽  
Sheree L. Toth ◽  
Dante Cicchetti
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Child Maltreatment ◽  
Adolescent Pregnancy ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Late Adolescent ◽  
Adolescent Depressive Symptoms

scholarly journals Toddler dysregulated fear predicts continued risk for social anxiety symptoms in early adolescence

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kristin A. Buss ◽  
Sunghye Cho ◽  
Santiago Morales ◽  
Meghan McDoniel ◽  
Ann Frank Webb ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factors ◽  
Social Anxiety ◽  
Relationship Quality ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Parental Monitoring ◽  
Social Withdrawal ◽  
Community Sample ◽  
Anxiety Symptoms ◽  
Child Reports ◽  
Two Samples

Abstract Identifying early risk factors for the development of social anxiety symptoms has important translational implications. Accurately identifying which children are at the highest risk is of critical importance, especially if we can identify risk early in development. We examined continued risk for social anxiety symptoms at the transition to adolescence in a community sample of children (n = 112) that had been observed for high fearfulness at age 2 and tracked for social anxiety symptoms from preschool through age 6. In our previous studies, we found that a pattern of dysregulated fear (DF), characterized by high fear in low threat contexts, predicted social anxiety symptoms at ages 3, 4, 5, and 6 years across two samples. In the current study, we re-evaluated these children at 11–13 years of age by using parent and child reports of social anxiety symptoms, parental monitoring, and peer relationship quality. The scores for DF uniquely predicted adolescents’ social anxiety symptoms beyond the prediction that was made by more proximal measures of behavioral (e.g., kindergarten social withdrawal) and concurrent environmental risk factors (e.g., parental monitoring, peer relationships). Implications for early detection, prevention, and intervention are discussed.

scholarly journals Peer social preference and depressive symptoms of children in Italy and the United States

2007 ◽  
Vol 31 (3) ◽  
pp. 274-283 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer E. Lansford ◽  
Cristina Capanna ◽  
Kenneth A. Dodge ◽  
Gian Vittorio Caprara ◽  
John E. Bates ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Aggressive Behavior ◽  
Peer Victimization ◽  
Peer Relationships ◽  
Social Preference ◽  
The United States ◽  
Relationship Problems ◽  
American Children ◽  
Italian Children

This study examined the role of low social preference in relation to subsequent depressive symptoms, with particular attention to prior depressive symptoms, prior and concurrent aggression, mutual friendships, and peer victimization. Italian children ( N = 288) were followed from grade 6 through grade 8, and American children ( N = 585) were followed from kindergarten through grade 12. Analyses demonstrate that low social preference contributes to later depressive symptoms. The effects are not accounted for by depressive symptoms or aggression experienced prior to low social preference but are mostly accounted for by the co-occurrence of depressive symptoms with concurrent aggressive behavior; gender, mutual friendships, and peer victimization generally did not moderate these associations. We conclude that peer relationship problems do predict later depressive symptoms, and a possible mechanism through which this effect occurs is through the effect of poor peer relationships on increasing aggressive behavior, which is associated with depressive symptoms.

scholarly journals Hippocampal Volume as an Amplifier of the Effect of Social Context on Adolescent Depression

2017 ◽  
Vol 5 (4) ◽  
pp. 632-649 ◽  
Author(s):  
Roberta A. Schriber ◽  
Zainab Anbari ◽  
Richard W. Robins ◽  
Rand D. Conger ◽  
Paul D. Hastings ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Risk Factor ◽  
Depressive Symptoms ◽  
Social Context ◽  
Adolescent Depression ◽  
Protective Factor ◽  
Hippocampal Volume ◽  
Interactive Effects ◽  
Mexican Origin ◽  
Family Connectedness ◽  
Affective Development

Recent models have focused on how brain-based individual differences in social sensitivity shape affective development in adolescence, when rates of depression escalate. Given the importance of the hippocampus in binding contextual and affective elements of experience, as well as its putative role in depression, we examined hippocampal volume as a moderator of the effects of social context on depressive symptoms in a sample of 209 Mexican-origin adolescents. Adolescents with larger versus smaller hippocampal volumes showed heightened sensitivity in their depressive symptoms to a protective factor inside the home (sense of family connectedness) and a risk factor outside the home (community crime exposure). These interactive effects uniquely predicted depressive symptoms and were greater for the left side, suggesting two independent social-contextual contributions to depression that were moderated by left hippocampal volume. Results elucidate complex brain-environment interplay in adolescent depression, offering clues about for whom and how social context plays a role.

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