Understanding Depression in Adolescents: A Dynamic Psychosocial Web of Risk and Protective Factors

Autor/inn/en	Kassis, Wassilis; Artz, Sibylle; White, Jennifer
Titel	Understanding Depression in Adolescents: A Dynamic Psychosocial Web of Risk and Protective Factors
Quelle	In: Child & Youth Care Forum, 46 (2017) 5, S.721-743 (23 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Zusatzinformation	ORCID (Kassis, Wassilis)
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	1053-1890
DOI	10.1007/s10566-017-9404-3
Schlagwörter	Adolescents; Depression (Psychology); Cross Cultural Studies; Risk; Family Characteristics; Questionnaires; Individual Characteristics; Social Environment; Middle School Students; Foreign Countries; Quality of Life; Statistical Analysis; Prediction; Prevention; Intervention; Mental Health; Identification; Mental Disorders; Correlation; Germany; Slovenia; Spain; Austria + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Cultural comparison; Kulturvergleich; Risiko; Fragebogen; Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Soziales Umfeld; Middle school; Middle schools; Student; Students; Mittelschule; Mittelstufenschule; Schüler; Schülerin; Ausland; Lebensqualität; Statistische Analyse; Vorhersage; Prävention; Vorbeugung; Psychohygiene; Identifikation; Identifizierung; Mental illness; Geisteskrankheit; Korrelation; Deutschland; Slowenien; Spanien; Österreich
Abstract	Background: Adolescent depression has been recognized as a complex problem that presents a global public health challenge. Left undetected and untreated, depression can significantly reduce quality of life. Objective: The main purpose of this paper is to re-visit risk and protective factors for depression in adolescents with a specific focus on exploring the individual, familial, and social contexts of depression (especially high and very high depression levels) in a multi-country sample of youth in order to see if these factors are mitigated by cultural location. Methods: Questionnaire data from a cross-sectional study of a randomly selected sample of 5149 middle-school students from four EU-countries (Austria, Germany, Slovenia, and Spain) was used. Applying variance analysis, we examined the prediction strength for the observed risk and protective factors. Results: In all participating countries we show that in for both male and female adolescents, depression is linked to a broad range of interactive individual, and social protective and risk factors, such that even if the contribution of a single factor is low but still significant and this factor's prediction strength is low or moderate, taken together, the cumulative prediction strength of these factors yields a remarkably similar coefficient of determination of 42-49% in all samples. Conclusions: We have established a significant and relevant combination of the individual and social multifactorial risk and protective factors that characterize depression in adolescents of both genders, no matter their country of location and with that, we call for a multifaceted and comprehensive approach to mental health assessment, prevention and intervention. (As Provided).
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Update	2020/1/01