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Maternal caregiving and girls' depressive symptom and antisocial behavior trajectories: An examination among high-risk youth

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 November 2014

Gordon T. Harold ,
Leslie D. Leve ,
Hyoun K. Kim ,
Liam Mahedy ,
Darya Gaysina ,
Anita Thapar  and
Stephan Collishaw
Gordon T. Harold*
Affiliation:
University of Sussex Tomsk State University
Leslie D. Leve*
Affiliation:
University of Oregon Oregon Social Learning Center
Hyoun K. Kim
Affiliation:
Oregon Social Learning Center
Liam Mahedy
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
Darya Gaysina
Affiliation:
University of Sussex
Anita Thapar
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
Stephan Collishaw
Affiliation:
Cardiff University
*
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Gordon T. Harold, Rudd Center for Adoption Research and Practice, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK; E-mail: g.harold@sussex.ac.uk; or Leslie D. Leve, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; E-mail: leve@uoregon.edu.
Address correspondence and reprint requests to: Gordon T. Harold, Rudd Center for Adoption Research and Practice, School of Psychology, University of Sussex, Sussex, UK; E-mail: g.harold@sussex.ac.uk; or Leslie D. Leve, Prevention Science Institute, University of Oregon, Eugene, OR 97403; E-mail: leve@uoregon.edu.
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Abstract

Past research has identified maternal depression and family of origin maltreatment as precursors to adolescent depression and antisocial behavior. Caregiving experiences have been identified as a factor that may ameliorate or accentuate adolescent psychopathology trajectories. Using a multilevel approach that pools the unique attributes of two geographically diverse, yet complementary, longitudinal research designs, the present study examined the role of maternal caregiver involvement as a factor that promotes resilience-based trajectories related to depressive symptoms and antisocial behaviors among adolescent girls. The first sample comprises a group of US-based adolescent girls in foster care (n = 100; mean age = 11.50 years), each of whom had a history of childhood maltreatment and removal from their biological parent(s). The second sample comprises a group of UK-based adolescent girls at high familial risk for depression (n = 145; mean age = 11.70 years), with all girls having biological mothers who experienced recurrent depression. Analyses examined the role of maternal caregiving on girls' trajectories of depression and antisocial behavior, while controlling for levels of co-occurring psychopathology at each time point. Results suggest increasing levels of depressive symptoms for girls at familial risk for depression but decreasing levels of depression for girls in foster care. Foster girls' antisocial behavior also decreased over time. Maternal caregiver involvement was differentially related to intercept and slope parameters in both samples. Results are discussed with respect to the benefits of applying multilevel (multisample, multiple outcome) approaches to identifying family-level factors that can reduce negative developmental outcomes in high-risk youth.

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Development and Psychopathology , Volume 26 , Special Issue 4pt2: Multilevel Developmental Perspectives Toward Understanding Internalizing Psychopathology: Current Research and Future Directions , November 2014 , pp. 1461 - 1475
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