Journal article
Parental Emotion Socialization in Clinically Depressed Adolescents: Enhancing and Dampening Positive Affect
Lynn Fainsilber Katz, Joann Wu Shortt, Nicholas B Allen, Betsy Davis, Erin Hunter, Craig Leve, Lisa Sheeber
JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL CHILD PSYCHOLOGY | SPRINGER/PLENUM PUBLISHERS | Published : 2014
Abstract
This study compared parental socialization of adolescent positive affect in families of depressed and healthy adolescents. Participants were 107 adolescents (42 boys) aged 14 - 18 years and their parents. Half of the participants met criteria for major depressive disorder and the others were demographically matched adolescents without emotional or behavioral disorders. Results based on multi-source questionnaire and interview data indicated that mothers and fathers of depressed adolescents were less accepting of adolescents' positive affect and more likely to use strategies that dampen adolescents' positive affect than were parents of healthy adolescents. Additionally, fathers of depressed a..
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