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Parental divorce and depression in young adulthood: adolescents' closeness to parents and self‐esteem as mediating factor
Author(s) -
Palosaari U.,
Aro H.,
Laippala P.
Publication year - 1996
Publication title -
acta psychiatrica scandinavica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 2.849
H-Index - 146
eISSN - 1600-0447
pISSN - 0001-690X
DOI - 10.1111/j.1600-0447.1996.tb10614.x
Subject(s) - closeness , psychology , depression (economics) , young adult , self esteem , offspring , risk factor , developmental psychology , cohort , vulnerability (computing) , clinical psychology , pregnancy , medicine , mathematical analysis , genetics , mathematics , biology , economics , macroeconomics , computer security , computer science
Palosaari U, Aro H, Laippala P. Parental divorce and depression in young adulthood: adolescents' closeness to parents and self‐esteem as mediating factor. Acta Psychiatr Scand 1996: 93: 20–26. © Munksgaard 1996. The mediating factors between childhood experience of parental divorce and subsequent depression in young adulthood were assessed in a follow‐up study of one Finnish urban age cohort from the age of 16 to 22 ( n = 1656). Depression was found to be more common among the offspring of divorced families. Low self‐esteem at age 16 was an indicator of vulnerability to depression in young adulthood irrespective of family background or gender. Among girls the long‐term impact of divorce was mediated via low self‐esteem and lack of closeness to father. When the relationship with the father was close, no excess risk of depression was found among girls from divorced families. Conversely, in boys no statistical connection between low self‐esteem or unsatisfactory relationship with parents and depression after parental divorce was found.