Depressive symptom trajectories in late adolescence and early adulthood: A systematic review

Schubert, Klaus Oliver; Clark, Scott; Van, Linh K.; Collinson, Jane L.; Baune, Bernhard T.

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“…Relationship dynamics are informed by the emotional stability each individual brings to the relationship. Two recent reviews of trajectories of depression in adolescence confirm past evidence that depressive symptoms peak during adolescence and, moreover, that a gender difference in depressive symptomology emerges early in adolescence with girls exhibiting more symptoms, perhaps due to girls’ earlier pubertal timing, relative stress, or propensity for a negative cognitive style (Salk, Hyde, & Abramson, ; Schubert, Clark, Van, Collinson, & Baune, ). Although being male is a predominant risk factor for persistent depression (Brière, Rohde, Stice, & Morizot, ), adolescent girls’ anxiety and depressive symptomology is marked by greater fluctuations over time (Olino, Klein, Lewinsohn, Rohde, & Seeley, ).…”

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confidence: 68%

Dating Relationship Dynamics, Mental Health, and Dating Victimization: A Longitudinal Path Analysis

Mumford

Taylor

Liu

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J of Research on Adolesc

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The purpose of this study was to assess the longitudinal association between adolescent dating relationship dynamics (measures of intimacy and problem dynamics), mental health, and physical and/or sexual victimization by a dating partner. Gender-stratified analyses were conducted in a sample of 261 adolescents, ages 10-18 at baseline, interviewed in three annual waves (2013-2015) of the nationally representative Survey on Teen Relationships and Intimate Violence (STRiV). Among male daters, better mental health at baseline was negatively associated with problem dynamics at follow-up, and aspects of problem dynamics at baseline predicted worse mental health at follow-up. However, unexpectedly, aspects of relationship intimacy at baseline were also negatively associated with mental health at follow-up. Male daters' victimization did not mediate longitudinal measures of mental health or of relationship dynamics, but did predict worse mental health at follow-up. Among female daters, we found no longitudinal associations between mental health and intimacy or problem relationship dynamics, in either direction. However, victimization mediated aspects of female daters' reported relationship dynamics. Dating violence prevention efforts should reflect that adolescent females reporting controlling behaviors and feelings of passionate love may be at increased risk for victimization. Positive youth development efforts should attend to the bidirectional associations of mental health and dating relationship dynamics over time, particularly for male adolescents.

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confidence: 68%

Dating Relationship Dynamics, Mental Health, and Dating Victimization: A Longitudinal Path Analysis

Mumford

Taylor

Liu

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“…Despite the differences across studies, four unique developmental trajectories are commonly identified (for reviews, see Munk‐Olsen, Eaton, & Zandi, 2; Schubert, Clark, Van, Collinson, & Baune, ; Shore, Toumbourou, Lewis, & Kremer, ). The four trajectories are typically characterized by (a) low depressive symptoms that remain relatively stable across time (sustained low levels, or low), (b) high depressive symptoms that remain relatively stable across time (sustained high levels, or high), (c) high initial levels of depressive symptoms that decrease across time (high‐decreasing), and (d) low initial levels of depressive symptoms that increase across time (low‐increasing; Briere et al, ; Chaiton et al, ; Dekker et al, ; Diamantopoulou et al, ; Ferro et al, ; Mezulis et al, ; Rodriguez et al, ; Yaroslavsky et al, ).…”

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Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among North American Indigenous Adolescents: Considering Predictors and Outcomes

Martinez

Armenta

2019

Child Development

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We identified developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms among 674 Indigenous adolescents (M age = 11.10, SD = 0.83 years) progressing from early to late adolescence. Four depressive symptoms trajectories were identified: (a) sustained low, (b) initially low but increasing, (c) initially high but decreasing, and (d) sustained high levels of depressive symptoms. Trajectory group membership varied as a function of gender, pubertal development, caregiver major depression, and perceived discrimination. Moreover, participants in the different trajectory groups were at differential risk for the development of an alcohol use disorder. These results highlight the benefit of examining the development of depressive symptoms and the unique ways that depressive symptoms develop among North American Indigenous youth as they progress through adolescence.

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“…In this study, we identified five groups of individuals with different trajectories of depressive symptoms between late childhood (approximately age 11) and early adulthood (approximately age 24) and explored the associations of each group with educational and employment outcomes. Four of these trajectories have been widely reported in previous studies, [5][6][7] low (here stable-low); high (childhood-persistent); increasing (early-adult onset); and decreasing (childhood-limited). Conversely, the adolescent onset group with symptoms that rise to a peak around age 17-19 before declining again is more unusual, although it has been found in at least one trajectory-based study 2 and is consistent with studies examining aggregate patterns for the whole population.…”

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confidence: 59%

“…Using repeated measures may also aid early identification of at-risk individuals if distinct trajectories, as well as symptom severity, predict poor adult outcomes. 6 Although scarcity of previous evidence hinders hypothesis formulation, insights from life-course epidemiological theory suggest three alternatives. 22 First, it may be that the effects of depressive symptoms are time-limited, so that trajectories characterised by high current levels of symptoms at the time of NEET status measurement (age 24) and university study (ages 17-22) are the ones most strongly associated with the outcomes (recency hypothesis).…”

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“…[2][3][4] Research has recently focused on heterogeneity in trajectories of depressive symptoms, on the basis that classification of distinct subgroups may inform prognosis and development of interventions. [5][6][7] Studies tend to identify a large group with low and stable symptoms throughout adolescence and smaller groups with moderate, high, increasing or decreasing trajectories. However, attempts to find a consensus on a taxonomy of depressive trajectories are complicated by marked differences in periods over which trajectories are estimated.…”

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Trajectories of depressive symptoms and adult educational and employment outcomes

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BackgroundDepressive symptoms show different trajectories throughout childhood and adolescence that may have different consequences for adult outcomes. AimsTo examine trajectories of childhood depressive symptoms and their association with education and employment outcomes in early adulthood. MethodWe estimated latent trajectory classes from participants with repeated measures of self-reported depressive symptoms between 11 and 24 years of age and examined their association with two distal outcomes: university degree and those not in employment, education or training at age 24. ResultsOur main analyses (n = 9399) yielded five heterogenous trajectories of depressive symptoms. The largest group found (70.5% of participants) had a stable trajectory of low depressive symptoms (stable-low). The other four groups had symptom profiles that reached full-threshold levels at different developmental stages and for different durations. We identified the following groups: childhood-limited (5.1% of participants) with fullthreshold symptoms at ages 11-13; childhood-persistent (3.5%) with full-threshold symptoms at ages 13-24; adolescent onset (9.4%) with full-threshold symptoms at ages 17-19; and earlyadult onset (11.6%) with full-threshold symptoms at ages 22-24. Relative to the majority 'stable-low' group, the other four groups all exhibited higher risks of one or both adult outcomes. ConclusionsAccurate identification of depressive symptom trajectories requires data spanning the period from early adolescence to early adulthood. Consideration of changes in, as well as levels of, depressive symptoms could improve the targeting of preventative interventions in early-to-mid adolescence. Declaration of interestNone.

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Depressive symptom trajectories in late adolescence and early adulthood: A systematic review

Abstract: Findings could assist in the formulation of novel concepts of depressive disorders in young people and inform preventive strategies and predictive models for clinical practice.

Cited by 88 publications

References 73 publications

Dating Relationship Dynamics, Mental Health, and Dating Victimization: A Longitudinal Path Analysis

Dating Relationship Dynamics, Mental Health, and Dating Victimization: A Longitudinal Path Analysis

Trajectories of Depressive Symptoms Among North American Indigenous Adolescents: Considering Predictors and Outcomes

Trajectories of depressive symptoms and adult educational and employment outcomes

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