1. Family and Peer Relationships in a Residential Youth Sample: Exploring Unique, Non-Linear, and Interactive Associations with Depressive Symptoms and Suicide Risk
- Author
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Alannah Shelby Rivers, Linda Ruan-Iu, Payne Winston-Lindeboom, Jody Russon, and Guy S. Diamond
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Adult ,Male ,Adolescent ,Social Psychology ,Friends ,Context (language use) ,Sample (statistics) ,Empirical Research ,Peer Group ,Education ,Young Adult ,Intervention (counseling) ,Developmental and Educational Psychology ,Humans ,Young adult ,Child ,Suicide Risk ,Depression (differential diagnoses) ,Friendships ,Depression ,Bullying ,Family environment ,Legal psychology ,Suicide ,Health psychology ,Female ,Disease Susceptibility ,Psychology ,Social Sciences (miscellaneous) ,Clinical psychology - Abstract
Close relationships are consequential for youth depressive symptoms and suicide risk, but nuanced research examining intersecting factors is needed to improve identification and intervention. This study examines a clinical, residential sample of 939 adolescents and young adults ages 10 to 23 years old (M = 15.84, SD = 1.53; 97.7% white, 99.5% non-Hispanic, 55% female). The final model found that family conflict, parental criticism, verbal bullying, and interactions with friends were associated with depressive symptoms in the expected directions, and there were significant interactions with family, peer, and demographic variables. However, most associations with suicide risk were indirect. Associations involving family factors, peer factors, depressive symptoms, and suicide are not always straightforward, and should be understood within a microsystemic context.
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- 2021