Depressive symptoms in adolescence : A longitudinal study of predictors, pathways, and consequences
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- Psykologisk institutt [4375]
Abstract
BACKGROUND: The current study examined childhood predictors and adulthood consequences of adolescent depressive symptoms. Despite the amount of studies that have examined predictors and consequences of adolescent depressive symptoms, few have examined the interplay between different risk factors while using several measurement points of adolescent depressive symptoms. The first general aim was therefore to extend our knowledge about effects of significant predictors present during childhood and adolescence on symptom development. Furthermore, findings consistently report that girls are at increased risk of developing depression compared to boys in adolescence. Still, there is a lack of longitudinal studies examining this gender-gap. A second general aim was therefore to extend our knowledge about gender differences and gender-specific mechanisms in the association between precursors and predictors of depressive symptoms. The third general aim was to examine consequences of persistent adolescent depressive symptoms on pregnancy outcomes in emerging adulthood.METHOD: Questionnaire data were utilized from two ongoing longitudinal studies: 1) The eight-wave Tracking Problems and Opportunities Study (TOPP) following individuals and their families from early childhood to late adolescence (1993-2011), and 2) The nine-wave Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study (VAHCS) following individuals from adolescence to adulthood (1992-2011). The thesis includes three papers, in which the first two papers used data from the TOPP-study and the final paper used data from the VAHCS-study.
List of papers
Paper I: Nilsen, W., Gustavson, K., Kjeldsen, Røysamb, E., & Karevold, E. (2012). Pathways from maternal distress and child problem behavior to adolescent depressive symptoms – A prospective examination from early childhood to adolescence. Submitted, published in: J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2013 Jun;34(5):303-13. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO due to publisher restrictions. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1097/DBP.0b013e318293ab05 |
Paper II: Nilsen, W., Karevold, E., Røysamb, E., Gustavson, K., & Mathiesen, K. S (In Press). Social skills and depressive symptoms across adolescence: Social support as a mediator in girls versus boys. NOTICE: this is the author’s version of a work that was accepted for publication in J Adolesc. Changes resulting from the publishing process, such as peer review, editing, corrections, structural formatting, and other quality control mechanisms may not be reflected in this document. Changes may have been made to this work since it was submitted for publication. A definitive version was subsequently published in: J Adolesc. 2013 Feb;36(1):11-20. The published version of this paper is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.adolescence.2012.08.005 |
Paper III: Nilsen, W., Olsson, C. A., Karevold, E., O’Loughlin, C., McKenzie, M., & Patton, G. C. (2012). Adolescent depressive symptoms and subsequent pregnancy, pregnancy completion and pregnancy termination in young adulthood: Findings from the Victorian Adolescent Health Cohort Study. J Pediatr Adolesc Gynecol. 2012 Feb;25(1):6-11. The paper is removed from the thesis in DUO due to publisher restrictions. The published version is available at: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jpag.2011.06.013 |