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Depression in 11–16‐year‐old Girls: The Role of Past Parental Psychopathology and Exposure to Recent Life Events
Author(s) -
Goodyer I. M.,
Cooper P. J.,
Vize C. M.,
Ashby L.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
journal of child psychology and psychiatry
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.652
H-Index - 211
eISSN - 1469-7610
pISSN - 0021-9630
DOI - 10.1111/j.1469-7610.1993.tb01776.x
Subject(s) - psychopathology , psychology , depression (economics) , psychiatry , developmental psychology , clinical psychology , macroeconomics , economics
— Interviews with parents of a non‐referred sample of 11–16‐year‐old girls ( n = 82) revealed that a significantly greater proportion of mothers with a lifetime: history of any psychiatric disorder also reported one or more recent undesirable life events focused on the adolescent compared with mothers with no such history, Lifetime episodes of maternal depression and recent undesirable life events exerted significant additive effects on the likelihood of depression occurring in the previous 12 months in adolescent girls. Some families may be “life event prone” as a consequence of lifetime episodes of parental psychopathology.