It is uncertain whether there exists a direct effect of problematic peer
relations on depressive symptoms.
Not exact matches
The impact of social
relations on the incidence of severe
depressive symptoms among infertile women and men
The results revealed that (1) for females and males, higher levels of
depressive symptoms correlated with a more
depressive attributional style; (2) females and males who met diagnostic criteria for a current
depressive disorder evidenced more depres - sogenic attributions than psychiatric controls, and never and past depressed adolescents; (3) although no sex differences in terms of attributional patterns for positive events, negative events, or for positive and negative events combined emerged, sex differences were revealed
on a number of dimensional scores; (4) across the Children's Attributional Style Questionnaire (CASQ) subscale and dimensional scores, the
relation between attributions and current self - reported
depressive symptoms was stronger for females than males; and (5) no Sex × Diagnostic Group Status interaction effects emerged for CASQ subscale or dimensional scores.
These findings confirm previous research
on the FEEL - KJ in which
relations were found with
depressive symptoms [14,15,26] and parental reports of externalizing and internalizing problems [14].
Relations between family context factors, maternal
depressive symptoms, and
depressive symptoms in childhood and adolescence were examined, with a focus
on early family relationship factors rarely available for analysis in longitudinal data sets.
Contrary to our expectations, we found no mediating effect of maternal warmth and psychological control
on the
relation between maternal
depressive symptoms and children's mental health problems.
Only among control men did stressful life events [F (1,245) = 7.07, P < 0.008] and
depressive symptoms during pregnancy [F (1,245) = 7.38, P < 0.007] predict a lower level of sexual affection, whereas among ART men, stressors did not have an effect
on marital
relations.
To our knowledge, only one observational study investigated the mediating effect of observed mother — child interaction behavior
on the
relation between maternal
depressive symptoms and children's mental health.
The current study was designed to examine the mediating effect of mother — child interaction
on the
relation between maternal
depressive symptoms and children's mental health problems.
Our second purpose was to study the mediating effect of the observed mother — child interaction behaviors
on the
relation between maternal
depressive symptoms and children's mental health problems.
There is a possibility that the effect of maternal
depressive symptoms on peer
relations was mediated directly by the level of maternal warmth in parent child interactions.