The dynamic interdependence between family support and depressive symptoms among adolescents in Ghana.
The dynamic interdependence between family support and depressive symptoms among adolescents in Ghana.
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加纳青少年家庭支持与抑郁症状之间的动态相互依赖。
DOI：
10.1007/s00038-015-0781-9
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发表时间：
2016-05
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Ghazarian SR
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作者：
Roche KM;Bingenheimer JB;Ghazarian SR
本研究确定了加纳青少年在青春期过程中家庭支持与抑郁症状之间关联的时间序列。数据来源于对718名加纳青少年（58%为女性）的纵向队列研究，这些青少年在第1波的平均年龄为13.84岁。青少年在三个时间点完成调查，从青春期早期到青春期晚期，间隔18个月。使用潜在生长曲线技术来调查家庭支持预测青少年抑郁症状变化的程度和/或抑郁症状先于青春期早期至晚期家庭支持变化的程度。加纳青年在青春期得到的家庭支持减少，抑郁症状增加。随着时间的推移，较低的家庭支持与较高的抑郁症状之间的关联是递归的或双向的。研究结果表明，促进家庭支持和减少青少年抑郁症状是一种中断从青春期早期到青春期晚期家庭支持减少和抑郁症状增加的递归循环的方法。
This study identified temporal sequencing in the associations between family support and depressive symptoms over the course of adolescence for youth in Ghana. Data derived from a longitudinal cohort study of 718 Ghanaian adolescents (58 % female) who were, on average, 13.84 years at Wave 1. Youth completed surveys at three time points separated by an 18-month time lag from early through late adolescence. Latent growth curve techniques were used to investigate the degree to which family support predicts changes in youth depressive symptoms and/or depressive symptoms precede changes in family support from early through late adolescence. Youth in Ghana experience declines in family support and increases in depressive symptoms over the course of adolescence. The associations between lower family support and higher depressive symptoms are recursive or bidirectional over time. Study results suggest the value of promoting family support and reducing youth's depressive symptomology as a way of interrupting a recursive cycle of declining family support and increasing depressive symptomology from early through late adolescence.