Symptom specificity and the prospective generation of life events in adolescence.
Abstract
The purpose of the present study was to uncover patterns in the generation of life events from symptom profiles and specific depression symptoms in an effort to obtain a fine-grained understanding of the stress-generation phenomenon. A community sample of 161 adolescents completed the Beck Depression Inventory-II (A. T. Beck, 1996) at Time 1, and then 88 returned 1 year later for an assessment of life events using a rigorous contextual interview and rating system. Consistent with hypotheses, and controlling for baseline stress, cognitive-affective symptoms of depression prospectively predicted higher levels of dependent interpersonal life events. In contrast, somatic symptoms prospectively predicted higher levels of independent life events. Further examination of the types of events generated by specific symptoms suggests that different mechanisms may drive specific patterns of symptom-event generation and suggests that broadening the definition of independence may be necessary to capture the full context of event generation.
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Many factors predispose to both dependent stressful life events and major depression, including neuroticism, prior depressive episodes, and genetic risk for major depression.
“Many factors predispose to both dSLEs and MD, including neuroticism, PDEs, and genetic risk for MD.16–21”
From Dependent Stressful Life Events and Prior Depressive Episodes in the Prediction of Major Depression (2010) · cites this paper as [21]
Stress may be related to adolescent ideation only insofar as it is correlated with psychiatric symptoms, particularly depression.
“As life stress is critically implicated in the onset and chronicity of depression (e.g., Harkness and Stewart 2009), our results suggest that stress may be related to adolescent ideation only insofar as it is correlated with psychiatric symptoms, particularly depression.”
From Life stress and suicide in adolescents (2019) · cites this paper as Harkness and Stewart 2009
People with depression create interpersonal stressors that partly stem from their own behaviors or traits.
“depressed individuals generate interpersonal stressors that are at least partly related to their behaviors or characteristics (Hammen 2018; Harkness and Stewart 2009).”
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- Authors
- Harkness, K. L., & Stewart, J. G.
- Affiliations
- Queen's University (CA)
- Venue
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology
- Published
- 2009-05
- Volume
- 118
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 278-287
- ISSN
- 0021-843X (ISSN-L)
- 1939-1846
- OpenAlex
- W2090701681
- Cited by
- 50
- References
- 64
- Citations by year
- 2024: 2 · 2023: 3 · 2022: 2 · 2021: 1 · 2019: 3 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 2 · 2016: 4 · 2015: 2 · 2014: 5 · 2013: 6 · 2012: 7
- FWCI
- 6.36
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
- Locations
- Journal of Abnormal Psychology (publishedVersion)
- PubMed (publishedVersion)
- Funders
- Hospital for Sick Children Foundation
- Topics
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Social Sciences › Psychology › Experimental and Cognitive Psychology › Mental Health Research Topics
- Keywords
- adolescent depression, life events, stress generation, symptom specificity, cognitive-affective symptoms, somatic symptoms, Beck Depression Inventory-II, contextual interviews
- MeSH terms
- Adolescent, Affect, Cognition, Depression, Female, Follow-Up Studies, Humans, Interpersonal Relations, Life Change Events, Male, Ontario, Personality Inventory, Predictive Value of Tests, Prospective Studies, Surveys and Questionnaires, Stress, Psychological, Time Factors
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