Sentences with phrase «found higher levels of depressive symptoms»

Studies have also found higher levels of depressive symptoms in girls than in boys as young as 12 years of age and have consistently found gender differences from then on out (Nolen - Hoeksema & Girgus, 1994).

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The researchers» findings indicated that decreased pupil dilation to emotional facial expressions predicted a significant increase in post-flood depressive symptoms, but only among women who experienced higher levels of flood - related stress.

Another study found that high levels of stress were associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms in 240 adolescents (26).

Also, we used objective approaches to quantify neighbourhood attributes that allowed us to partially control for potential reverse causality due to depressed individuals tending to exhibit negative cognitive bias resulting in negative thoughts and perceptions.65 Residential self - selection bias is likely to be a trivial source of reverse causality in this study because Hong Kong's high levels of population density (6760 people / km2) and low percentage of developed land (less than 25 %) 66 limit most residents» choice of accommodation and 37 % of Hong Kong older adults live in public rental housing.67 Given the satisfactory response rate and the level of similarity in depressive symptoms and sociodemographic characteristics of participants recruited from two types of recruitment centres, the findings from this study are likely to be generalisable to the population of Chinese Hong Kong older adults matching the study eligibility criteria and other populations of older adults living in similar ultra-dense metropolises of Southeast Asia.

Perceived neighbourhood disorder was found to be predictive of late - age depression, 10 and higher social cohesion11 — 13 and neighbourhood - level socioeconomic status (SES) 14 — 16 were associated with fewer depressive symptoms.

Studying a low - income population, we found that maternal obesity and depressive symptoms were related to high levels of TV viewing in preschool children.

We found that after controlling for demographic characteristics and physical disease, empty - nest older adults had significantly higher levels of loneliness and depressive symptoms, and a higher prevalence of major depressive episodes.

Finally, in considering temperament as a vulnerability factor for depression, it is important to note that in addition to behavioural inhibition several theorists have developed temperament models that link additional temperamental styles, particularly Positive Emotion (PE) and Negative Emotion (NE) to depression.58 Many cross-sectional studies have reported that youth and adults with depressive symptoms exhibit diminished levels of PE and elevated levels of NE59, 60,61 and the combination of these have been associated with concurrent depressive symptoms in clinical62, 63 and community samples.61, 64,65 Furthermore, longitudinal studies have found that lower levels of PE60, 66,67 and higher level of NE in childhood68 - 70 predict the development of depressive symptoms and disorders.

Lupsakko, Mantyjarvi, Kautiainen, and Sulkava (2002) found that higher levels of depressive symptomatology (but not clinical depression) occurred in a population - based sample of older adults relative to their non-impaired peers, and Crews and colleagues reported that mild or moderate levels of depressive symptoms are a common comorbid condition among elders who are visually impaired.

However, when stratified by quality of studies, the Cochrane review found no statistically significant evidence in methodologically robust RCTs that exercise was more effective than psychological or pharmacological therapies.46 Nevertheless, we still found that depressive symptoms are associated with lower PA levels in individuals at high risk of CVD, which highlights the importance of screening and optimising conventional depression management48 to reduce depressive symptoms, which could help lower CVD risk.3 4

More recently, Peek et al. (2006) found that both husbands» and wives» own self - rated health was associated with partner's self - rated health even after accounting for other's demographic, health, and stress characteristics, and Stimpson, Eschbach, and Peek (2007) found that the level of spouse's chronic conditions, but not own conditions, was significantly associated with higher levels of depressive symptoms.

Moreover, the association between self - efficacy and depressive symptoms was found to differ between boys and girls since low levels of social self - efficacy were associated with higher concurrent levels of depressive symptoms for girls, but not for boys (Bandura et al. 1999).

Consistent with other studies of estradiol and WM in other populations, higher levels of estradiol was associated with better WM, whereas higher levels of depressive symptoms predicted poorer WM. Somewhat surprising is the finding that sleep disturbance did not appear to correlate with variation in the WM scores.

Maslowsky and Schulenberg (2013) found support for a synergistic interaction such that high levels of depressive symptoms were associated with high levels of SU, but only when conduct problems were high.

Higher levels of depressive symptoms 2 years later were found in all adolescents who used avoidant coping, irrespective of whether they used avoidant coping consistently at Time 1 and Time 2 or changed from approach - oriented coping to avoidant coping at Time 2.

A recent study by McLennan and Kotelchuck25 found that mothers of toddlers and preschool - aged children with high levels of depressive symptoms were less likely to apply preventative practices such as using a car seat and / or using electrical plug covers.

Cummings et al. (2005) found that kindergarten children of mothers who experienced high levels of depressive symptoms were more often excluded by peers than other children.

Consistent with findings from other studies on maternal depression and depressive symptoms, the present study demonstrates that mothers» experience of a high level of depressive symptoms during the child's kindergarten year has a lasting negative impact on the child's socio - emotional development and adjustment during the early school years.

This might imply that our findings are specific to mothers with high levels of depressive symptoms and clinically aggressive children.

We found that experiences of cyber dating abuse were most significantly correlated with being female, committing a greater variety of delinquent behaviors, having had sexual activity in one's lifetime, having higher levels of depressive symptoms, and having higher levels of anger / hostility.

Recently, Sandman et al. found that when mothers experienced congruent levels of depressive symptoms during and after pregnancy, even when the levels of symptoms were relatively high and the prenatal and postnatal environments were unfavorable, the offspring increased motor and mental development during the first year of life [25].