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Maternal caregiving and girls' depressive symptom and antisocial behavior trajectories: An examination among high-risk youth
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posted on 2023-06-08, 22:06 authored by Gordon Harold, Leslie D Leve, Hyoun K Kim, Liam Mahedy, Darya GaysinaDarya Gaysina, Anita Thapar, Stephan CollishawPast research has identified maternal depression and family of origin maltreatment as precursors to adolescent depression and antisocial behavior. Caregiving experiences have been identified as a factor that may ameliorate or accentuate adolescent psychopathology trajectories. Using a multilevel approach that pools the unique attributes of two geographically diverse, yet complementary, longitudinal research designs, the present study examined the role of maternal caregiver involvement as a factor that promotes resilience-based trajectories related to depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviors among adolescent girls. The first sample comprises a group of US-based adolescent girls in foster care (n = 100; mean age = 11.50 years), each of whom had a history of childhood maltreatment and removal from their biological parent(s). The second sample comprises a group of UK-based adolescent girls at high familial risk for depression (n = 145; mean age = 11.70 years), with all girls having biological mothers who experienced recurrent depression. Analyses examined the role of maternal caregiving on girls' trajectories of depression and antisocial behavior, while controlling for levels of co-occurring psychopathology at each time point. Results suggest increasing levels of depressive symptoms for girls at familial risk for depression but decreasing levels of depression for girls in foster care. Foster girls' antisocial behavior also decreased over time. Maternal caregiver involvement was differentially related to intercept and slope parameters in both samples. Results are discussed with respect to the benefits of applying multilevel (multisample, multiple outcome) approaches to identifying family-level factors that can reduce negative developmental outcomes in high-risk youth.
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Development and PsychopathologyISSN
0954-5794Publisher
Cambridge University PressExternal DOI
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4pt2Volume
26Page range
1461-1475Department affiliated with
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2015-08-13First Compliant Deposit (FCD) Date
2015-08-13Usage metrics
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