Affiliation:
1. Central Michigan University
Abstract
In this 3-year longitudinal study, the depressed affect of early adolescent boys and girls was studied with the purpose of distinguishing among those adolescents with chronic, as compared to episodic, depressed affect and those without elevated levels of depressed mood during that developmental stage. Variable-centered analyses indicated a general pattern of stability in depressed affect across early adolescence both for boys and for girls. Person-centered analyses, however, revealed five separate patterns of depressed affect across early adolescence. The depressed affect categories showed patterns of stability for most early adolescents, patterns of change for fewer early adolescents, and gender differences only in the smaller subgroups of early adolescents who showed patterns of change in depressed affect. Case-level analyses focused on adolescents with elevated depressed affect to distinguish ways in which the daily lives of adolescents with episodic depressed affect differed from the daily lives of adolescents with chronically depressed affect.
Subject
Life-span and Life-course Studies,Sociology and Political Science,Social Sciences (miscellaneous),Developmental and Educational Psychology
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