Parental perception matters : Reciprocal relations between adolescents' depressive symptoms and parental perceptions

A large body of research has shown that parents play a vital role in the development of adolescents' depression. However, previous research has overlooked the effects of a potentially critical factor, namely, parental perceptions, and beliefs about adolescents' depression. The present study examined whether parental perceptions of an adolescent's depressive symptoms predict longitudinal changes in adolescents' symptoms (i.e., the parental perception effect). The longitudinal relationship between adolescents' depressive symptoms and parental perceptions of the adolescents' symptoms was analyzed in three independent groups of parent-adolescent pairs (in total N = 1,228). Parental perception and monitoring effects were found in Studies 1B and 2 only in the depressive mood subscale. While a decreased enjoyment subscale showed a perception effect in Study 1A, we obtained null results from other studies. We synthesized the results by applying meta-analytic structural equation modeling to obtain a more robust estimate. The analysis qualified both perception and monitoring effects in both subscales. Our results suggest that when parents believe that their adolescent child is depressed, adolescents are cognitively biased by their parental perceptions over time, resulting in more severe depressive symptoms. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2023 APA, all rights reserved).

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E-Artikel

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2023

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2023

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Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:70

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Journal of counseling psychology - 70(2023), 1 vom: 22. Jan., Seite 103-118

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Englisch

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Ohtani, Kazuhiro [VerfasserIn]
Tamura, Ayame [VerfasserIn]
Sakaki, Michiko [VerfasserIn]
Murayama, Kou [VerfasserIn]
Ishikawa, Shin-Ichi [VerfasserIn]
Ishii, Ryo [VerfasserIn]
Nakazato, Naoki [VerfasserIn]
Suzuki, Takashi [VerfasserIn]
Tanaka, Ayumi [VerfasserIn]

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Date Completed 09.01.2023

Date Revised 11.01.2023

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1037/cou0000632

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NLM345653602