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- Title
Parental Criticism and Adolescent Depression: Does Adolescent Self-Evaluation Act as a Mediator?
- Authors
Bolton, Catherine; Barrowclough, Christine; Calam, Rachel
- Abstract
Background: A better understanding of relationships between adolescent depression and family functioning may help in devising ways to prevent development of depression and design effective therapeutic interventions. Aims: This study explored the relationship of parental emotional attitudes, (perceived criticism and expressed emotion) to adolescent self-evaluation and depression. Methods: A sample of 28 clinic-referred adolescents and their mothers participated. The Five Minute Speech Sample was used to measure parental expressed emotion, and the adolescents completed the Children's Depression Inventory, Self-Perception Profile for Children global self-worth scale, a self-criticism scale and a perceived parental criticism scale. Results: There was partial support for a model of adolescent negative self-evaluation as a mediator in the relationship between parental emotional attitudes and adolescent depressive symptoms. The data also supported an alternative hypothesis whereby adolescent depressive symptoms are related to negative self-evaluation. Conclusions: The overall pattern of results emphasizes the significance of adolescents' perceptions of parental criticism, rather than actual levels, in understanding the relationship between parental emotional attitudes and adolescent depressive symptoms.
- Subjects
PREVENTION of mental depression; OPERANT behavior; DEPRESSION in adolescence; ATTITUDES of mothers; SELF-evaluation; THERAPEUTICS; PERSONAL criticism
- Publication
Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapy, 2009, Vol 37, Issue 5, p553
- ISSN
1352-4658
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1017/S1352465809990221