The relationship between maternal depression, adolescent depression, and engagement in health-risk behaviours
Authors: Maeve E. Wickham
Overview
Abstract (English)
Maternal depression is a known risk factor for offspring psychopathology; however, the role of maternal depressive symptoms in the adolescent engagement in health-risk behaviours (e.g., substance use and delinquency) needs further study. Using data from 2910 youth in the National Longitudinal Survey of Children and Youth (NLSCY), a nationally representative prospective cohort, the relationship between maternal depressive symptoms and engagement in a variety of health-risk behaviours at age 16-17, as well as time of onset of engagement, was examined. Latent class analysis was used to model trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms from age 4-15, and exploratory factor analysis was used to examine clusters of health-risk behaviours; five trajectories of maternal depressive symptoms during childhood were modeled, and five factors of behaviours were found. findings indicate that adolescents exposed to high maternal depressive symptoms in mid-childhood engaged in more health-risk behaviours, earlier, than adolescents not exposed to maternal depressive symptoms.
Abstract (French)
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Details
Type | Master’s thesis |
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Author | Maeve E. Wickham |
Publication Year | 2012 |
Title | The relationship between maternal depression, adolescent depression, and engagement in health-risk behaviours |
City | Edmonton, AB |
Department | School of Public Health Sciences |
University | University of Alberta |
Publication Language | English |
- Maeve E. Wickham
- The relationship between maternal depression, adolescent depression, and engagement in health-risk behaviours
- Maeve E. Wickham
- University of Alberta
- 2012
- Master’s thesis