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Interparental conflict spillover: Examining parental depression risk pathways.

Year: 2024

Type: article

Abstract: , in which parental depressive symptoms strengthen the within-person linkage between daily couple conflict and poorer parent-adolescent relations. We analyzed data from 150 adolescents and caregivers from two-caregiver families who completed baseline and 21-day daily diary surveys. Consistent with a stress generation hypothesis, parents who were higher in baseline depressive symptoms reported higher levels of IPC over 21 days. At the daily level, there was evidence of spillover from IPC to higher parent-adolescent conflict and lower parent-adolescent closeness, but there was no evidence for increased propensity for spillover by parents' baseline depressive symptoms or daily depressed mood. Rather, there was a direct association between higher daily parental depressed mood and poorer daily parent-adolescent relationship quality (lower closeness, higher conflict). Ameliorating parental depressive symptoms may improve parent-adolescent relationship quality directly, as well as indirectly by decreasing the risk for IPC. (PsycInfo Database Record (c) 2024 APA, all rights reserved).

Source: Journal of Family Psychology

DOI: 10.1037/fam0001264

Authors: Jeesun Lee, Carlie J. Sloan, Steffany J. Fredman, Gregory M. Fosco

Institution: Pennsylvania State University

Language: English

Topic: Attachment and Relationship Dynamics

Subfield: Social Psychology

Field: Psychology

Domain: Social Sciences

SDG: Good health and well-being

Open Access status: hybrid

Funders: Pennsylvania State University, National Institutes of Health