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T1 The role of affective family attributes and family rules in the prediction of depressive symptoms in adolescents
A1 Caño-González, Antonio
A1 Rodríguez-Naranjo, María Carmen
K1 Adolescentes - Congresos
K1 Depresión mental - Congresos
AB Depressive symptoms in adolescents are a major problemin today’s society, and it is well established that familyenvironment, as well as sociodemographic variables, suchas sex, age and socio-economic status (SES), contributes tothem. However, family attributes are not accurately defined,some of them sharing characteristics but differing in labels,which reveals the different theoretical and methodologicalframeworks of the studies focusing on family attributes. Thus,the genuine family attributes responsible for the depressivesymptoms when both sociodemographic variables and otherfamily attributes are controlled remain unclear. In this study,we aimed to rise above these limitations both employingan inclusive and widely used measure of family attributes,the Family Assesment Device (FAD), and a methodologicalapproach that allow identifying the family attributes thatcontribute to depressive symptoms, but also isolating theeffect of each family attribute from others, thus revealingtheir real/unique effects. For this purpose, we used regressionanalyses, as well as Pratt’s measure, which qualifies us toquantify the non-shared amount of depressive symptomsexplained for each family attribute. Our results showed that,although all the family variables measured by FAD seemed tobe related to depressive symptoms, when a proper analysis wascarried out that controlled for the overlapping between them,only affective responsiveness (AR), affective involvement(AI), and behavioural control (BC) genuinely predictedadolescent depressive symptoms. As a conclusion, our resultsshowed that, as expected, the affective family attributes (ARand AI) are of paramount importance to prevent adolescentdepression but, interestingly, also revealed that the existenceand obedience of rules within the family (BC) also play animportant role to its prevention.
PB Horizons of Psychology (Journal). Društvo psihologov Slovenije, ISSN 2350-5141
YR 2022
FD 2022
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24627
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/24627
LA eng
NO Caño, A. and Rodríguez-Naranjjo, C. The role of affective family attributes and family rules in the prediction of depressive symptoms in adolescents. Actas del 17th European Congress of Psychology. Horizons of Psychology, 31, 372.
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 19 ene 2026