Disappearing Depression in a Population Sample of Boys

Author:

ANGOLD ADRIAN1,ERKANLI ALAATTIN2,LOEBER ROLF3,COSTELLO E. JANE4,VAN KAMMEN WELMOET BOK5,STOUTHAMER-LOEBER MAGDA6

Affiliation:

1. ADRIAN ANGOLD, MRCPsych, is an assistant professor of child psychiatry and co-director of the Developmental Epidemiology Program in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. His research interests include diagnostic comorbidity, the effects of puberty on psychopathology, and mental health service use. Address: Adrian Angold, DUMC Box 3454, Durham, NC 27710.

2. ALAATTIN ERKANLI, PhD, is a faculty member and statistician in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences at Duke University Medical Center. His research focus is analysis of multistage study data.

3. ROLF LOEBER, PhD, is co-director of the Life History Studies Program at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic at the University of Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania.

4. E. JANE COSTELLO, PhD, is an associate professor of medical psychology in the Department of Psychiatry and Behavioral Sciences and co-director of the Developmental Epidemiology Program at Duke University.

5. WELMOET BOK VAN KAMMEN, PhD, is program director for the Pittsburgh Youth Study at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interests include relapse prediction in schizophrenia, psychological sequelae of war-related stress, and substance use in children and adolescents.

6. MAGDA STOUTHAMER-LOEBER, PhD, is co-director of the Life History Studies Program at the Western Psychiatric Institute and Clinic and an associate professor of psychiatry and psychology at the University of Pittsburgh. Her research interest is in the area of conducting high-quality research on the development of antisocial behavior.

Abstract

Although there is evidence that rates of depressive disorders increase during adolescence in girls, the data on the effects of age on depression in boys have been contradictory. In order to shed further light on this issue, the Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire (SMFQ) was administered to a general population sample of approximately 1,500 boys ages 6 to 15 years, during four annual interviews. Longitudinal analyses revealed a substantial decrease in reported depressive symptoms between the ages of 8 and 11. The implications of these findings for developmental epidemiological research on depression are discussed.

Publisher

SAGE Publications

Subject

Psychiatry and Mental health,Clinical Psychology,Developmental and Educational Psychology,Education

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