Sentences with phrase «higher levels of depressive symptoms did»

Contrary to our expectations, children of mothers with higher levels of depressive symptoms did not report more depressive symptoms.

Not exact matches

In addition to explanations for above average effect sizes, is has to be explained why young people with arthritis, cancer, cystic fibrosis, diabetes, HIV infection, and sickle cell disease did not show higher levels of depressive symptoms than their healthy peers.

1) Girls who receive the intervention compared with a control group of girls who do not, will show significantly lower levels of depressive symptoms, body dissatisfaction, unhealthy dietary restraint, bulimic symptoms, internalisation of the thin ideal, body comparison, appearance conversations, expectancies of thinness, and higher media literacy and self - esteem;

As anticipated, children with higher levels of depressive symptoms, either alone or in combination with aggression, demonstrated more negative conceptions of both self and peers than did nonsymptomatic children.

Moreover, older adults who rapidly regulated had lower trait anxiety and depressive symptoms and higher levels of optimism than their same - age peers who did not rapidly regulate.

In addition to the low N of younger adults, a limitation of the current study is that we do not know if the affective profile of older rapid regulators — low trait anxiety, depressive symptoms, levels of neuroticism, and high levels of optimism — caused them to rapidly regulate their mood or if rapid mood regulation promotes this particular pattern of affect - relevant traits.

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.

A systematic review of neighbourhood characteristics and health outcomes only identified one study that considered mental disorders.12, 13 Recent studies have shown that neighbourhood social disorganisation is associated with depressive symptoms14 and that living in socioeconomically deprived areas is associated with depression, 15,16 with higher levels of child problem behaviour, 17 with a higher incidence of non-psychotic disorders.18 A randomised controlled trial that moved families from high poverty neighbourhoods to non-poor neighbourhoods showed that both parents and children who moved reported fewer psychological distress symptoms than did control families who did not move.19

Thus, we hypothesized that individuals with low perceived control who do not believe they have the capacity to control or influence their peer and familial relationships will experience increased levels of dependent interpersonal stress, and then such stress would contribute to higher levels of depressive symptoms.

In doing so, the results suggest that individuals who feel that they can not exert an impact on important outcomes in their lives contribute to greater interpersonal conflict which in turn, results in higher levels of depressive symptoms.