Maternal Depression, Parenting, and Youth Depressive Symptoms: Mediation and Moderation in a Short-Term Longitudinal Study

Background The relationships between offspring depression profiles across adolescence and different timings of parental depression during the perinatal period remain unknown. Aims To explore different timings of maternal and paternal perinatal depression in relation to patterns of change in offspring depressive mood over a 14 year period. Method Data were obtained from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children (ALSPAC). Parental antenatal depression (ANTD) was assessed at 18 weeks gestation, and postnatal depression (PNTD) at 8 weeks postpartum. Population-averaged trajectories of offspring depressive symptoms were estimated using the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) on nine occasions between 10 and 24 years of age. Results Full data were available for 5029 individuals. Offspring exposed to both timings of maternal depression had higher depressive symptoms across adolescence compared with offspring not exposed to ANTD or PNTD, characterised by higher depressive symptoms at age 16 (7.07 SMFQ points (95% CI = 6.19, 7.95; P < 0.001)) and a greater rate of linear change (0.698 SMFQ points (95% CI = 0.47, 0.93; P = 0.002)). Isolated maternal ANTD and to a lesser extent PNTD were also both associated with higher depressive symptoms at age 16, yet isolated maternal PNTD showed greater evidence for an increased rate of linear change across adolescence. A similar pattern was observed for paternal ANTD and PNTD, although effect sizes were attenuated. Conclusions This study adds to the literature demonstrating that exposure to two timings of maternal depression (ANTD and PNTD) is strongly associated with greater offspring trajectories of depressive symptoms.

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Associations Between Symptoms of Depression and Air Pollutant Exposure Among Older Adults: Results From the Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging (TLSA)

Frontiers in Public Health ◽

10.3389/fpubh.2021.779192 ◽

2022 ◽

Vol 9 ◽

Author(s):

Kuan-Chin Wang ◽

Yuan-Ting C. Lo ◽

Chun-Cheng Liao ◽

Yann-Yuh Jou ◽

Han-Bin Huang

Keyword(s):

Older Adults ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Air Pollutants ◽

Ambient Air ◽

Community Dwelling ◽

Air Pollutant ◽

Moving Averages ◽

Short Term ◽

Symptoms Of Depression

Background: Little epidemiological research has investigated the associations of air pollutant exposure over various time windows with older adults' symptoms of depression. This study aimed to analyze the relationships of long- and short-term ambient air pollution exposure (to coarse particulate matter, O3, SO2, CO, and NOx) with depressive symptoms in a sample of community-dwelling older adults.Methods: A sample of older adults (n = 1,956) was recruited from a nationally representative multiple-wave study (Taiwan Longitudinal Study on Aging). Between 1996 and 2007, four waves of surveys investigated depressive symptoms by using the 10-item Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression questionnaire. We approximated air pollutant concentrations from 1995 to 2007 by using daily concentration data for five air pollutants at air quality monitoring stations in the administrative zone of participants' residences. after adjusting for covariates, we applied generalized linear mixed models to analyze associations for different exposure windows (7-, 14-, 21-, 30-, 60-, 90-, and 180-day and 1-year moving averages).Results: In a one-pollutant model, long- and short-term exposure to CO and NOx was associated with heightened risks of depressive symptoms; the odds ratio and corresponding 95% confidence interval for each interquartile range (IQR) increment in CO at 7-, 14-, 21-, 30-, 60-, 90-, and 180-day and 1-year moving averages were 1.232 (1.116, 1.361), 1.237 (1.136, 1.348), 1.216 (1.128, 1.311), 1.231 (1.133, 1.338), 1.224 (1.124, 1.332), 1.192 (1.106, 1.285), 1.228 (1.122, 1.344), and 1.180 (1.102, 1.265), respectively. Those for each IQR increment in NOx were 1.312 (1.158, 1.488), 1.274 (1.162, 1.398), 1.295 (1.178, 1.432), 1.310 (1.186, 1.447), 1.345 (1.209, 1.496), 1.348 (1.210, 1.501), 1.324 (1.192, 1.471), and 1.219 (1.130, 1.314), respectively. The exposure to PM10, O3, and SO2 over various windows were not significant. In the two-pollutant model, only the associations of NOx exposure with depressive symptoms remained robust after adjustment for any other pollutant.Conclusions: Exposure to traffic-associated air pollutants could increase depression risks among older adults.

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The existential model of perfectionism and depressive symptoms: A short-term, four-wave longitudinal study.

Journal of Counseling Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0020667 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 57 (4) ◽

pp. 423-438 ◽

Cited By ~ 41

Author(s):

Aislin R. Graham ◽

Simon B. Sherry ◽

Sherry H. Stewart ◽

Dayna L. Sherry ◽

Daniel S. McGrath ◽

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Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Short Term

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Stress generation in a developmental context: The role of youth depressive symptoms, maternal depression, the parent–child relationship, and family stress.

Journal of Family Psychology ◽

10.1037/a0035277 ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 28 (1) ◽

pp. 32-41 ◽

Cited By ~ 4

Author(s):

Priscilla T. Chan ◽

Stacey N. Doan ◽

Martha C. Tompson

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Maternal Depression ◽

Family Stress ◽

Stress Generation ◽

Parent Child Relationship ◽

Developmental Context ◽

Child Relationship ◽

Youth Depressive Symptoms ◽

Parent Child

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Religious Characteristics, Spirituality, and Depressive Symptoms Among 10th- to 12th-Graders Living in a Buddhist or Daoist Culture: A Short-Term Longitudinal Study

International Journal for the Psychology of Religion ◽

10.1080/10508619.2015.1097806 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 27 (1) ◽

pp. 14-25 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Hao-Jan Yang ◽

Chien-Lin Mao ◽

Chia-Yi Wei ◽

Sheng-Shiung Huang

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Short Term

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Depressive symptoms are a vulnerability factor for heavy episodic drinking: A short-term, four-wave longitudinal study of undergraduate women

Addictive Behaviors ◽

10.1016/j.addbeh.2012.11.008 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 38 (5) ◽

pp. 2180-2186 ◽

Cited By ~ 34

Author(s):

Aislin R. Mushquash ◽

Sherry H. Stewart ◽

Simon B. Sherry ◽

Dayna L. Sherry ◽

Christopher J. Mushquash ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Heavy Episodic Drinking ◽

Short Term ◽

Vulnerability Factor ◽

Undergraduate Women

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Child Development, Maternal Depression and Associated Factors: A Longitudinal Study

Paidéia (Ribeirão Preto) ◽

10.1590/1982-4327e3012 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 30 ◽

Author(s):

Rafaela de Almeida Schiavo ◽

Gimol Benzaquen Perosa

Keyword(s):

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Child Development ◽

Maternal Depression ◽

Screening Test ◽

Associated Factors ◽

Developmental Screening ◽

The Third ◽

Birth Data ◽

The Relationship

Abstract Maternal depression can compromise child development, but little about its effects has been investigated since the pregnancy stage. This longitudinal study aimed to compare, in two moments, the development of children of mothers with depressive symptoms and to identify whether these symptoms and other sociodemographic variables were associated with development at 6 and 14 months. One hundred and thirty nine women answered a questionnaire referring to sociodemographic and birth data and the Beck Depression Inventory, in the third gestational trimester, 6 and 14 months after childbirth. At 6 and 14 months of age, children were assessed using the Denver Developmental Screening Test. There was a high percentage of babies at risk at 6 and 14 months. Depressive symptoms were associated with delays in the development of subareas, but not with overall development. It is believed that the relationship between maternal depression and developmental delay is mediated by other variables that indirectly interfere in the process and would need further investigation.

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Popularity Among Peer Role Models: A Moderator of Peer Victimization and Depressive Symptoms

The Journal of Early Adolescence ◽

10.1177/0272431619837376 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 40 (2) ◽

pp. 273-299

Author(s):

Tana Luo ◽

David Schwartz ◽

Sarah Malamut ◽

Luiza V. Mali ◽

Alexandra C. Ross ◽

...

Keyword(s):

Middle School ◽

Depressive Symptoms ◽

Longitudinal Study ◽

Peer Victimization ◽

Role Models ◽

Ethnically Diverse ◽

Self Report ◽

Emotional Impact ◽

Short Term ◽

Peer Nomination

This short-term, longitudinal study examines evidence that the level of popularity among adolescents’ peer role models exacerbates the emotional impact of mistreatment by peers. We recruited 469 adolescents (255 boys, 214 girls; [Formula: see text] age = 12.7 years) from an ethnically diverse middle school and followed these youth for a 1-year period. We collected identical measurement batteries in two consecutive waves. Participants completed a self-report assessment of depressive symptoms, as well as a peer-nomination inventory identifying victimized and popular classmates. The inventory also included items asking adolescents to identify peers they want to be like, respect, and admire. High popularity levels among peer role models were associated with intensified associations between peer victimization and depressive symptoms. However, these findings held only for boys. Taken together, these results suggest that victimization by peers is most detrimental for adolescent boys who seek to identify with their more socially dominant classmates.

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