%0 Journal Article
%T Latent Growth Curve Model of Perceived Family Relationship Quality and Depressive Symptoms During Middle Adolescence in Spain
%A Diego Gomez-Baya
%A Ines Camacho
%A Margarida Gaspar de Matos
%A Ramon Mendoza
%J Journal of Family Issues
%@ 1552-5481
%D 2018
%R 10.1177/0192513X17741174
%X This study aimed to examine longitudinal associations between the perceived quality of family relationships and self-reported depressive symptoms during middle adolescence. A 2-year follow-up study, with three assessments at 1-year intervals, was conducted. A total of 525 Spanish adolescents completed paper-based self-report assessments, which included the 10-item Child Depression Inventory and a brief Likert-type scale to measure the quality of the relationships with their father and their mother separately. The results indicated that a decline in the quality of both adolescent每father and adolescent每mother relationships were related to an increase in depressive symptoms during middle adolescence. Furthermore, adolescent每father relationships were found to be worse for girls than for boys and were observed to be associated with gender differences in depressive symptoms after the follow-up. The results provide longitudinal evidence on the importance of parent每adolescent relationships and gender differences in depressive symptoms during adolescence
%K family
%K parent每adolescent relationship
%K depression
%K adolescence
%K longitudinal
%U https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0192513X17741174