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Title: A Longitudinal Analysis of Depression: Associations with Parental Divorce during Emerging Adulthood
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Watkins, Nicole K. |
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A Longitudinal Analysis of Depression: Associations with Parental Divorce during Emerging Adulthood Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Education, Indiana University, 2019 Cohort(s): NLSY79, NLSY79 Young Adult Publisher: ProQuest Dissertations & Theses (PQDT) Keyword(s): Depression (see also CESD); Marital Conflict; Parental Influences; Parental Marital Status Permission to reprint the abstract has not been received from the publisher. This dissertation examined how change in parental marital status during emerging adulthood (EA) was associated with depressive symptom trajectories from adolescence through EA. Latent growth curve models were estimated to examine depressive symptom trajectories relative to change in parental marital status, with emerging adult sex and parental marital conflict modeled as moderators of the association between depression and parental divorce. Data were drawn from 2,600 emerging adults ages 18-25 and their mothers, who participated in the Child and Young Adult Cohort of the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth 1979. Among findings, I observed significant associations between parental divorce when emerging adults were ages 18/19 with higher overall depressive symptom scores at ages 18/19 and 20/21. Emerging adult sex did not moderate the association between parental marital status and depressive symptoms. However, higher parental marital conflict scores during adolescence moderated the association between marital status at age 18/19 and depressive symptoms at ages 22/23 and 24/25, such that when parents divorced when the emerging adult was 18/19, higher parental conflict was associated with higher depressive symptomology at ages 22/23 and 24/25 compared to those whose parents remained married at 18/19, who did not differ on depressive symptoms regardless of marital conflict. |
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Watkins, Nicole K. A Longitudinal Analysis of Depression: Associations with Parental Divorce during Emerging Adulthood. Ph.D. Dissertation, School of Education, Indiana University, 2019. |