Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Maternal Depression during Early Adolescence: Girls Appear More Susceptible than Boys

Autor/inn/en	Connelly, J. P.; O'Connell, Michael
Titel	Gender Differences in Vulnerability to Maternal Depression during Early Adolescence: Girls Appear More Susceptible than Boys
Quelle	In: Psychology in the Schools, 59 (2022) 2, S.297-315 (19 Seiten)Infoseite zur Zeitschrift PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Connelly, J. P.) ORCID (O'Connell, Michael)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0033-3085
DOI	10.1002/pits.22609
Schlagwörter	Gender Differences; Mothers; At Risk Persons; Preadolescents; Early Adolescents; Depression (Psychology); Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Predictor Variables; Caregiver Child Relationship; Family Income; Longitudinal Studies; Bullying; Foreign Countries; Ireland + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Geschlechterkonflikt; Mother; Mutter; Risikogruppe; Pre-adolescence; Präadoleszenz; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Prädiktor; Familieneinkommen; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Mobbing; Ausland; Irland
Abstract	Maternal depression has consistently demonstrated reliability as a predictor of major depression in children. However, the effect of gender as a potential moderator remains under-researched. This study examined gender differences in depression and hypothesized that maternal depression would be more greatly associated with depression in girls by early adolescence. A representative sample of 7237 participants from the Growing Up in Ireland national longitudinal study of Irish children was examined across two waves when participants were aged 9 and 13. Separate multiple regression analyses were run for girls and boys to ascertain if maternal depression and other key variables predicted child depression by age 13. A third analysis looked at the effect of gender. Maternal depression when the children were aged 9 was found predictive of depressive symptomology by age 13 in girls but not for boys. Additionally, conflict with caregivers, household income, and bullying were significant predictors for both genders. Gender significantly predicted youth depression when the child was female (R[superscript 2] = 0.13, ƒ[superscript 2] = 0.25). These findings indicate that late childhood to early adolescence is a vulnerable period for girls during which they appear more susceptible to developing depressive symptomology than boys, particularly when exposed to maternal depression. (As Provided).
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Update	2024/1/01