Undesirable life-events and depression in young adolescents |
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Authors: | Pamela A Meyer MSPH Carol Z Garrison PhD Kirby L Jackson AB Cheryl L Addy PhD Robert E McKeown PhD Jennifer L Waller MSPH |
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Institution: | (1) Department of Epidemiology and Biostatistics, University of South Carolina, South Carolina;(2) Division of Children's Health, SC Department of Health and Environmental Control, Box 101106, 29211 Columbia, S.C. |
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Abstract: | We compared the relationship between individual undesirable life-events and comprehensive life-event factors, as well as major depression in adolescents. Students in four public suburban middle schools were screened for depressive symptomatology and life-events by a self-administered questionnaire. Seven of 21 individual events (parents' divorce, parental job loss, problems between parents, problems between the adolescent and his/her parents, failing a grade in school, school suspension, death of a close friend) and three of six life-event factors (conflict/disappointment, marital discord, maladjustment) were significantly related to depression in univariate models. A multivariate examination of the individual events was difficult to interpret, but examination of the event factors found maladjustment and conflict/disappointment significant. Analyses using the undesirable life-event factors provided a clearer picture of the relationships investigated by grouping related events into a more manageable number of independent categories. Specific combinations of life-events suggest stronger associations with adolescent depression than others. Clinicians may identify youths at risk for depression when specific combinations of undesirable life-events occur. |
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Keywords: | adolescents depression life-events |
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