RT Conference Proceedings
T1 Family functioning characteristics involved in adolescent depressive symptoms
A1 Caño-González, Antonio
A1 Rodríguez-Naranjo, María Carmen
K1 Adolescentes - Psicología
AB Research has shown that family functioning contributes to depressive symptoms in adolescents, with awide range of family functioning characteristics associated to adolescent depressive symptoms. However,these family attributes have been studied through different studies, methodologies and theoreticalframeworks, and do not allow envisaging a single whole picture of the family attributes associated toadolescent depressive symptoms. The objective of this study was to overcome this deficit. We followed asystematic approach and used the Family Assessment Device (FAD), which comprehensively identify sixfamily variables in which healthy and unhealthy families differ: Problem Solving (PS), Communication(CM), Roles (RL), Affective Responsiveness (AR), Affective Involvement (AI) and Behaviour Control(BC). Independent regression analyses conducted for each variable showed that all the FAD variablessignificantly predicted BDI scores. However, when the six variables were introduced simultaneously inthe same equation to control for the shared explained variance, only AR and AI showed significanteffects, with BC approaching significance. These results were confirmed through Prat measure, whichshowed that the non-overlapping effects of AR, AI and BC accounted for virtually the whole varianceexplained by the FAD dimensions. Conclusions at both methodological and applied levels emerge fromthese results. At a methodological level, these results prove the need for controlling the shared variancebetween family variables before deriving any conclusion about their role. At an applied level, theyshowed that the family affective aspects are the most important regarding adolescent depression, withonly behaviour control playing a role within the non-affective variables.
YR 2019
FD 2019-05-16
LK https://hdl.handle.net/10630/17667
UL https://hdl.handle.net/10630/17667
LA eng
NO Universidad de Málaga. Campus de Excelencia Internacional Andalucía Tech.
DS RIUMA. Repositorio Institucional de la Universidad de Málaga
RD 20 ene 2026