Children of depressed mothers: Communication and coping

描述(由申请人提供)：父母抑郁对抑郁父母的子女的精神病理学来说是一个重要的风险。青春期早期可能是研究抑郁父母家庭中亲子互动的一个特别重要的发育期，因为这一发育期与抑郁症发病率的增加和患抑郁症风险的显著性别差异有关。为了更好地了解父母抑郁传播的潜在机制，这项拟议的研究将使用全球编码系统来比较抑郁的母子双方和非抑郁的母子双方之间的视频互动。母亲和孩子们将进行两次15分钟的录像讨论，其中一次将集中在他们最近分享的一项愉快的活动上，另一次将围绕双方同意的与抑郁相关的家庭压力。这些互动将使用爱荷华州家庭互动评级系统对母亲和青少年中的个人和二元变量进行编码。本课程将研究母亲的诊断状况、父亲的抑郁症状、婚姻冲突、沟通变量和青少年结局之间的关系。此外，将通过研究沟通方式和应对反应之间的联系，以及应对反应和儿童功能之间的关系，来审查压力和应对在母亲和青少年之间的关系中的作用。这项研究的结果将为未来与家庭的预防干预提供信息，以帮助减少抑郁母亲的青少年后代的抑郁和其他疾病的发生率。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): Parental depression presents a significant risk for psychopathology in offspring of depressed parents. Early adolescence may be an especially important developmental period to study parent-child interactions in families of depressed parents, as this developmental period is associated with increasing rates for depression and the emergence of a strong gender difference in risk for depression. To better understand the mechanisms underlying this transmission of parental depression, the proposed study will use a global coding system to compare videotaped interactions between depressed mother-child dyads and non-depressed mother-child dyads. Mothers and children will engage in two 15-minute videotaped discussions, one of which will focus on a pleasant activity they have recently shared, and a second around a mutually agreed-upon family stress associated with depression. The interactions will be coded with the Iowa Family Interaction Rating System for individual and dyadic variables in both mothers and adolescents. Associations between the mothers' diagnostic status, [fathers' depressive symtoms, marital conflict,] communication variables, and adolescents' outcomes will be examined. Moreover, the role of stress and coping in the relationship between mothers and adolescents will be examined by looking at associations between communication styles and coping responses, as well as the relationship between coping responses and child functioning. Results of this study will inform future preventive interventions with families to help reduce the incidence of depression and other disorders in adolescent offspring of depressed mothers.