Open AccessEconomic pressure and depressive symptoms: Testing the family stress model from adolescence to adulthood.
Author(s) -
Shane A. Kavanaugh,
Tricia K. Neppl,
Janet N. Melby
Publication year - 2018
Publication title -
journal of family psychology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.138
H-Index - 120
eISSN - 1939-1293
pISSN - 0893-3200
DOI - 10.1037/fam0000462
Subject(s) - psychology , psycinfo , offspring , depressive symptoms , longitudinal study , developmental psychology , young adult , clinical psychology , psychiatry , medline , pregnancy , anxiety , medicine , biology , political science , law , genetics , pathology
The family stress model (FSM) was used to examine the effects of economic pressure on maternal depressive symptoms, couple conflict, and mother harsh parenting during adolescence on offspring depressive symptoms in adulthood. Prospective longitudinal data were analyzed across 3 developmental time points that included 451 mothers and their adolescents. Economic pressure and mother depressive symptoms were assessed during early adolescence, couple conflict and mother harsh parenting were assessed during middle to late adolescence, and offspring depressive symptoms were assessed in adulthood. Findings were in support of pathways in the FSM in that economic pressure was related to maternal depressive symptoms, which were associated with couple conflict, which in turn predicted mother harsh parenting during adolescence, and mother harsh parenting was associated with offspring depressive symptoms in adulthood. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2018 APA, all rights reserved).