TY - JOUR
T1 - Testing transactional processes between parental support and adolescent depressive symptoms
T2 - From a daily to a biennial timescale
AU - Boele, Savannah
AU - Nelemans, Stefanie A
AU - Denissen, Jaap J A
AU - Prinzie, Peter
AU - Bülow, Anne
AU - Keijsers, Loes
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s), 2022. Published by Cambridge University Press.
PY - 2023/10/1
Y1 - 2023/10/1
N2 - Transactional processes between parental support and adolescents' depressive symptoms might differ in the short term versus long term. Therefore, this multi-sample study tested bidirectional within-family associations between perceived parental support and depressive symptoms in adolescents with datasets with varying measurement intervals: Daily (N = 244, M (age) = 13.8 years, 38% male), bi-weekly (N = 256, M (age) = 14.4 years, 29% male), three-monthly (N = 245, M (age) = 13.9 years, 38% male), annual (N = 1,664, M (age) = 11.1 years, 51% male), and biennial (N = 502, M (age) = 13.8 years, 48% male). Preregistered random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) showed negative between- and within-family correlations. Moreover, although the preregistered models showed no within-family lagged effect from perceived parental support to adolescent depressive symptoms at any timescale, an exploratory model demonstrated a negative lagged effect at a biennial timescale with the annual dataset. Concerning the reverse within-family lagged effect, increases in adolescent depressive symptoms predicted decreases in perceived parental support 2 weeks and 3 months later (relationship erosion effect). Most cross-lagged effects were not moderated by adolescent sex or neuroticism trait level. Thus, the findings mostly support adolescent-driven effects at understudied timescales and illustrate that within-family lagged effects do not generalize across timescales.
AB - Transactional processes between parental support and adolescents' depressive symptoms might differ in the short term versus long term. Therefore, this multi-sample study tested bidirectional within-family associations between perceived parental support and depressive symptoms in adolescents with datasets with varying measurement intervals: Daily (N = 244, M (age) = 13.8 years, 38% male), bi-weekly (N = 256, M (age) = 14.4 years, 29% male), three-monthly (N = 245, M (age) = 13.9 years, 38% male), annual (N = 1,664, M (age) = 11.1 years, 51% male), and biennial (N = 502, M (age) = 13.8 years, 48% male). Preregistered random-intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs) showed negative between- and within-family correlations. Moreover, although the preregistered models showed no within-family lagged effect from perceived parental support to adolescent depressive symptoms at any timescale, an exploratory model demonstrated a negative lagged effect at a biennial timescale with the annual dataset. Concerning the reverse within-family lagged effect, increases in adolescent depressive symptoms predicted decreases in perceived parental support 2 weeks and 3 months later (relationship erosion effect). Most cross-lagged effects were not moderated by adolescent sex or neuroticism trait level. Thus, the findings mostly support adolescent-driven effects at understudied timescales and illustrate that within-family lagged effects do not generalize across timescales.
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U2 - 10.1017/s0954579422000360
DO - 10.1017/s0954579422000360
M3 - Article
C2 - 35545300
SN - 0954-5794
VL - 35
SP - 1656
EP - 1670
JO - Development and Psychopathology
JF - Development and Psychopathology
IS - 4
ER -