Retrospective Basic Parent-Child Communication Difficulties and Risk of Depression in Deaf Adults
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This paper describes the relationship between retrospective communication difficulties and current depressive symptomatology. A total of 143 deaf/hard-of-hearing late adolescents and adults (64 % White; 55 % female) completed questionnaires related to parent communication, language history and current psychological functioning. Logistic regression models were used to estimate the likelihood of having depression that is associated with understanding parents' communication after controlling for gender, hearing level, and language history. Significant odds ratio indicated that the difficulties in understanding basic communication with parents increased the odds of depression symptomatology. The odds ratio indicates that when holding all other variables constant, the odds of reporting depression were at least 8 times higher for those who reported being able to understand some to none of what the same-sex parent said. For the different-gender parent, only the mother's communication with the male individual was associated with depression. Although our study findings suggest that DHH men and women with history of communication difficulties at home are at risk for depression in adulthood, they do not provide information on the causal mechanisms linking communication difficulties early in life and depression later in life. Greater attention should be given to promoting healthy communication between DHH girls and their mothers as well as DHH boys and their fathers, which might reduce the impact on later emergence of depression in the DHH individual.
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Including deaf children in everyday activities protects the child from emergence of depressive or anxiety disorders.
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The discussion links difficulty participating in family conversations with feelings of neglect and describes healthy parent–child communication as a possible way to reduce later depression risk. But its Future Directions section says preventive interventions for deaf children have not been empirically tested. The paper does not establish that inclusion in everyday activities protects against depressive disorders, and it does not make that claim about anxiety disorders (page numbers were not supplied). (LLM, conf=0.87)
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- Authors
- Kushalnagar, P., Bruce, S., Sutton, T., & Leigh, I. W.
- Affiliations
- Gallaudet University (US)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (US)
- Corresponding author
- Kushalnagar, Poorna
- Venue
- Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities
- Published
- 2016-07-02
- Volume
- 29
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 25-34
- ISSN
- 1056-263X (ISSN-L)
- 1573-3580
- PMC
- PMC5342251
- OpenAlex
- W2463499522
- Cited by
- 39
- References
- 18
- Citations by year
- 2026: 3 · 2025: 5 · 2024: 6 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 4 · 2021: 3 · 2020: 4 · 2019: 5 · 2018: 6
- FWCI
- 8.59
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- green
- www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov
- Locations
- Journal of Developmental and Physical Disabilities (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- PubMed Central (acceptedVersion)
- Funders
- National Institute on Deafness and Other Communication Disorders (1R01DC014463-01A1, 3R01DC014463-01A1S1)
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Developmental and Educational Psychology › Hearing Impairment and Communication
- Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Hearing Loss and Rehabilitation
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Family and Disability Support Research
- Keywords
- deaf adults, depression, parent-child communication, communication difficulties, language history, gender differences, father-daughter communication, risk factors for depression
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