Neuroticism, Life Events and Negative Thoughts in the Development of Depression in Adolescent Girls

Autor/inn/en	Kercher, Amy J.; Rapee, Ronald M.; Schniering, Carolyn A.
Titel	Neuroticism, Life Events and Negative Thoughts in the Development of Depression in Adolescent Girls
Quelle	In: Journal of Abnormal Child Psychology, 37 (2009) 7, S. 903-915 PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0091-0627
DOI	10.1007/s10802-009-9325-1
Schlagwörter	Forschungsbericht; Females; Negative Attitudes; Early Adolescents; Personality; Path Analysis; Depression (Psychology); Adolescent Development; Neurosis; Cognitive Processes; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Risk; Measures (Individuals); Prediction + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Weibliches Geschlecht; Negative Fixierung; Personalität; Pfadanalyse; Neurose; Cognitive process; Kognitiver Prozess; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Risiko; Messdaten; Vorhersage
Abstract	Theories of depression suggest that cognitive and environmental factors may explain the relationship between personality and depression. This study tested such a model in early adolescence, incorporating neuroticism, stress-generation and negative automatic thoughts in the development of depressive symptoms. Participants (896 girls, mean age 12.3 years) completed measures of personality and depressive symptoms, and 12 months later completed measures of depressive symptoms, recent stressors and negative automatic thoughts. Path analysis supported a model in which neuroticism serves as a distal vulnerability for depression, conferring a risk of experiencing dependent negative events and negative automatic thoughts, which fully mediate the effect of neuroticism on later depression. A second path supported a maintenance model for depression in adolescence, with initial levels of depression predicting dependent negative events, negative automatic thoughts and subsequent depressive symptoms. Unexpectedly, initial depression was also associated with later "independent" life events. This study establishes potential mechanisms through which personality contributes to the development of depression in adolescent girls. (As Provided).
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Begutachtung	Peer reviewed
Erfasst von	ERIC (Education Resources Information Center), Washington, DC
Update	2017/4/10