Maternal Criticism and Adolescent Depressive and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms: A 6-Year Longitudinal Community Study
Maternal Criticism and Adolescent Depressive and Generalized Anxiety Disorder Symptoms: A 6-Year Longitudinal Community Study
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DOI：
10.1007/s10802-013-9817-x
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发表时间：
2014-07-01
影响因子：
3.6
通讯作者：
Meeus, Wim H. J.
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作者：
Nelemans, Stefanie A.;Hale, William W., III;Meeus, Wim H. J.
这项为期6年的纵向研究考察了母亲批评与青少年抑郁和广泛性焦虑障碍(GAD)症状之间的影响方向(即，父母影响、儿童影响或相互影响)，包括青少年将批评视为潜在中介的看法。与最近关于父母教养和青少年内化症状之间关系的经验发现一致，我们假设孩子的影响比父母的影响更强。对497名青少年(T-1年龄为13.03岁，57%为男孩)的社区样本每年报告他们的抑郁和GAD症状以及他们对父母批评的看法。他们的母亲(T-1的M(年龄)=44.41)也每年报告自己对青少年的批评行为。正如预期的那样，交叉滞后的面板模型显示，对于青少年抑郁和GAD症状，儿童的影响(即，青少年精神病理学预测母亲的批评)比父母的影响(即，母亲的批评预测青少年的精神病理)更强，包括青少年被认为是一个重要的中介因素。我们的结果强调了考虑(1)随着时间的推移潜在的双向影响，而不是关注父母对青少年心理健康的影响的重要性，以及(2)青少年对父母教养方式的看法是亲子关系各方面与青少年内化心理病理症状之间关系的重要潜在中介。
This 6-year longitudinal study examined the direction of effects (i.e., parent effects, child effects, or reciprocal effects) between maternal criticism and adolescent depressive and Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) symptoms, including adolescents' perceptions of criticism as a potential mediator. Consistent with recent empirical findings on associations between parenting and adolescent internalizing symptoms, we hypothesized stronger child effects than parent effects. A community sample of 497 adolescents (M (age) = 13.03 at T-1, 57 % boys) reported annually on their depressive and GAD symptoms as well as their perceptions of parental criticism. Their mothers (M (age) = 44.41 at T-1) also reported annually on their own critical behavior toward their adolescent. As expected, cross-lagged panel models demonstrated stronger child effects (i.e., adolescent psychopathology predicting maternal criticism) than parent effects (i.e., maternal criticism predicting adolescent psychopathology) for both adolescent depressive and GAD symptoms, including adolescent perceived criticism as a significant mediator. Our results emphasize the importance of considering (1) potential bidirectional influences over time, contrary to a focus on parent effects on adolescent mental health, as well as (2) adolescent perceptions of parenting as an important potential mediator in associations between aspects of the parent-adolescent relationship and adolescent internalizing psychopathological symptoms.