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Does perceived stress moderate the association between depressive symptoms and socioemotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties in adolescence?
Author(s) -
Lätsch Alexander
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
stress and health
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.009
H-Index - 61
eISSN - 1532-2998
pISSN - 1532-3005
DOI - 10.1002/smi.2774
Subject(s) - socioemotional selectivity theory , moderation , psychology , association (psychology) , developmental psychology , structural equation modeling , cognition , depressive symptoms , clinical psychology , longitudinal study , strengths and difficulties questionnaire , german , stress (linguistics) , mental health , psychiatry , medicine , social psychology , linguistics , statistics , philosophy , mathematics , archaeology , pathology , psychotherapist , history
More and more students report high level of perceived stress during childhood and adolescence, which is associated with socioemotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties. This study aims—based on the cognitive vulnerability‐transactional stress theory—to examine perceived stress in early adolescence as a potential moderator in the association between depressive symptoms and socioemotional and behavioural strengths and difficulties from early to middle adolescence. Results of latent moderated structural equations with questionnaire data from a longitudinal study with 1,088 German students (Time 1: M age = 13.70, SD = 0.53; Time 2: N = 845, M age = 15.32, SD = 0.49) indicate that perceived stress functions as a moderator in the above‐mentioned association and dominates the interaction if perceived strongly.