A multimethod examination of the stability of depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence.

Abstract

In an 8-wave, 2-cohort longitudinal study, children and adolescents were followed from the fall of 5th grade to the spring of 8th grade. Participants (N = 1,269), their parents, and peers completed reports of depressive symptoms at 6-month intervals. The use of a 2-group latent variable autoregressive model to examine the stability of depressive symptomatology revealed several trends. First, the 6-month stability of depressive symptoms was high for boys and girls. Second, the stability of depressive symptomatology was lower between the spring of 6th grade and the fall of 7th grade than during any other point in the study. Finally, the stability of depressive symptoms did not differ with respect to gender.

Longitudinal Links Between Perfectionism and Depression in Children

“…Similar to previous studies assessing the stability of depression (see Tram & Cole, 2006 for a review), we found that depressive symptoms were stable across three years. We also extended the current state of the literature on perfectionism in children and adolescents by being one of the first studies to provide stability estimates across two years from children in Grades 7 and 8, showing that both SOP and SPP were stable across time.…”

Cognitive Vulnerability–Stress Model of Depression During Adolescence: Investigating Depressive Symptom Specificity in a Multi-Wave Prospective Study

“…For example, Tram and Cole (2006) recently reported test-retest correlations in depressive symptoms around or above 0.7 over 6 month intervals for a cohort-sequential design of 5th-8th graders followed for four time points over 18 months. The strong continuity of psychopathological symptoms over time is important for at least two reasons.…”

“…The strong continuity of psychopathological symptoms over time is important for at least two reasons. First, it is very difficult to predict prospective changes in symptoms given such high test-retest correlations (cf., Tram and Cole 2006). For example, at least 50% of variance in depressive symptoms is already accounted for by prior symptoms, so this makes it challenging to find significant etiological prediction of future symptoms.…”

Posredujuća Uloga Emocionalne Regulacije U Odnosu Roditeljskoga Ponašanja I Prilagodbe Mlađih Adolescenata

“…Depresivni poremećaji vrlo su rijetki u predškolskoj dobi i bez spolnih razlika u incidenciji, ali u adolescenciji postoji izrazito povećanje učestalosti, koje je za djevojčice dvostruko brže nego za dječake. U dobi od 16 godina djevojčice imaju dvaput veću vjerojatnost razvoja depresivne simptomatologije od dječaka (Tram i Cole, 2006.). Za sve dobne skupine od školske dobi do adolescencije dominirajući afekt je tuga, što upućuje na to da su potištenost, obeshrabrenost i osamljenost središnja obilježja kod depresivnih doživljaja.…”