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| Title |
Nuancing the role of social skills– a longitudinal study of early maternal psychological distress and adolescent depressive symptoms
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| Published in |
BMC Pediatrics, April 2018
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| DOI | 10.1186/s12887-018-1100-4 |
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| Authors |
Wendy Nilsen, Evalill Bølstad Karevold, Jannike Kaasbøll, Anne Kjeldsen |
| Abstract |
Social skills might play an important role for the relationship between maternal psychological distress and subsequent development of depressive symptoms. The majority perspective is that social skills is adaptive and protective, but there is a need to also highlight the potential maladaptive effect of social skills in some settings or for some sub groups. The current study examined the longitudinal interplay between maternal-reported psychological distress in early childhood (age 1.5), and offspring reports on social skills and depressive symptoms in early (age 12.5) and middle adolescence (age 14.5). We used data from the Tracking Opportunities and Problems Study (TOPP), a community-based longitudinal study following Norwegian families to examine direct links and interactions between early maternal distress (measured with the Hopkins Symptom Checklist) and early adolescent offspring social skills (measured with the Social Skills Rating System) and middle adolescent depressive symptoms (measured with the Moods and Feelings Questionnaire) in 370 families (in total 740 mothers and adolescents). Exposure to childhood maternal distress predicted offspring depressive symptoms in middle adolescence. Higher social skills in early adolescence predicted lower levels of depressive symptoms for girls, but not for boys, in middle adolescence. An interaction effect was found in which adolescents exposed to early maternal distress who reported high social skills in early adolescence had the highest level of depressive symptoms in middle adolescence. The findings highlight the nuances in the role of social skills for adolescent depressive symptoms - having the potential to be both adaptive as well as maladaptive for some subgroups (those experiencing maternal psychological distress). This has important implications for social skill programs. |
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Geographical breakdown
| Country | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Unknown | 62 | 100% |
Demographic breakdown
| Readers by professional status | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Student > Doctoral Student | 9 | 15% |
| Student > Ph. D. Student | 8 | 13% |
| Student > Master | 5 | 8% |
| Lecturer | 3 | 5% |
| Student > Postgraduate | 2 | 3% |
| Other | 6 | 10% |
| Unknown | 29 | 47% |
| Readers by discipline | Count | As % |
|---|---|---|
| Psychology | 13 | 21% |
| Medicine and Dentistry | 10 | 16% |
| Nursing and Health Professions | 4 | 6% |
| Social Sciences | 3 | 5% |
| Computer Science | 1 | 2% |
| Other | 3 | 5% |
| Unknown | 28 | 45% |
Attention Score in Context
This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 9. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 29 August 2020.
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