Adolescents' internalizing and externalizing symptom trajectories in relation to early-life parental depressive symptoms
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
<a href="https://www.isvavai.cz/riv?ss=detail&h=RIV%2F00216208%3A11130%2F25%3A10499535" target="_blank" >RIV/00216208:11130/25:10499535 - isvavai.cz</a>
Alternative codes found
RIV/00216208:11240/25:10499535
Result on the web
<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qW.aTXE.fX" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=qW.aTXE.fX</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.10067" target="_blank" >10.1192/j.eurpsy.2025.10067</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Adolescents' internalizing and externalizing symptom trajectories in relation to early-life parental depressive symptoms
Original language description
Background: While risk factors for children's internalizing and externalizing symptomtrajectories have been widely studied, their association with parental depressive symptomtrajectories has yet to be explored.Methods: We used data from a prospective birth cohort of 2542 Czech children and their parents.Children reported internalizing and externalizing symptoms at ages 11, 15, and 18 years. Parentaldepressive symptoms were assessed eight times from the prenatal period to the child's age of 11years. Latent Class Growth Mixture Modeling identified parallel trajectories of children'ssymptoms. Five parental depressive symptom trajectories were adopted from previous research.Results: We identified four distinct classes of children's symptom trajectories: (1) lowinternalizing and low externalizing (64%), (2) low internalizing and high externalizing (8%), (3)elevated internalizing and elevated externalizing (19%), and (4) high internalizing and elevatedexternalizing symptoms (9%). Children more likely experienced any symptoms if their mothershad elevated depressive symptoms. High maternal and paternal depressive symptoms wereassociated with high internalizing and elevated externalizing symptoms in children. Constantlydepressed mothers with elevated depressive symptoms in fathers had high likelihood of anysymptom trajectories in children. Other strong predictors of children's symptom trajectoriesincluded parental relationship status (e.g., divorce), prior abortion, as well as children's sex, urbanversus rural residence, stressful life events, and self-esteem.Conclusions: Parents' and children's mental health trajectories are interconnected. Given thestrong influence of parental relationship dynamics on both parental and child mental health,interventions should prioritize mitigating relationship strains to support family well-being.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
30300 - Health sciences
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA23-05379S" target="_blank" >GA23-05379S: Exploring the dynamics of depressive symptoms in intimate relationships</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
European Psychiatry
ISSN
0924-9338
e-ISSN
1778-3585
Volume of the periodical
68
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
FR - FRANCE
Number of pages
9
Pages from-to
e111
UT code for WoS article
001554675300001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-105010876487