Prospective Bidirectional Associations between Attachment and Depressive Symptoms from Middle Childhood to Adolescence.

Insecure attachment to parents consistently correlates with adolescent depression. However, the order of cause and effect, the impact of confounding, and gender disparities in this relationship remain unresolved. The present study therefore examined the prospective associations between attachment re...

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Publicado en:Journal of Youth & Adolescence Vol. 48; no. 11; pp. 2099 - 2114
Autores principales: Cortés-García, L., Wichstrøm, L., Viddal, K. R., Senra, C.
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Publicado: Springer Nature Nov2019
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          Cortés-García, L.
          Wichstrøm, L.
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          Department of Clinical Psychology and Psychobiology, Faculty of Psychology, University of Santiago de Compostela, Campus Vida, Calle Xosé María Suárez Núñez, s/n, 15782, Santiago de Compostela, Spain
          Department of Psychology, NTNU Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway
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        Mental depression
        Attachment behavior
        Child behavior
        Father-child relationship
        Mother-child relationship
        Parent-child relationships
        Sex distribution
        Teenagers' conduct of life
        Family relations
        Adolescence
        Children
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          Mental depression
          Attachment behavior
          Child behavior
          Father-child relationship
          Mother-child relationship
          Parent-child relationships
          Sex distribution
          Teenagers' conduct of life
          Family relations
          Adolescence
          Children
          Spain
          Longitudinal method
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        Attachment relationships
        Depression
        Dynamic panel model
        Gender
        Reciprocal associations
        Attachment relationships
        Depression
        Dynamic panel model
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        Reciprocal associations
      ab: Insecure attachment to parents consistently correlates with adolescent depression. However, the order of cause and effect, the impact of confounding, and gender disparities in this relationship remain unresolved. The present study therefore examined the prospective associations between attachment relationships to mothers and fathers and depressive symptoms in a community sample of Spanish children (n = 904; 49.4% females) assessed biennially from age 10–16 years, net of all unmeasured time-invariant confounding. Insecure relationships predicted depressive symptoms, and more so among girls, but depressive symptoms also forecasted worsened attachment relationships. At ages 12–14, mother–child attachment proved to be more important for the development of depressive symptoms than father–child attachment. These findings reveal a pattern of reciprocal influence between attachment relationships and depressive symptoms that appears to vary as a function of the parental and child's gender and developmental period. Thus, efforts aimed at strengthening the parent–child attachment relationship—across the transition from middle childhood to adolescence—may prevent or reduce depressive symptoms, especially by targeting mothers and female adolescents.
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