Parent-Specific Effects
This parent consistently had a stronger influence on the development of depressive symptoms.
Who is the mother?
This measure was used to assess depressive symptoms in children and adolescents.
What is the Children’s Depression Inventory (CDI)?
Depressive symptoms may erode the quality of these relationships over time.
What are attachment relationships?
This type of study follows the same participants over time to observe changes and development.
What is a longitudinal study?
This mental framework, formed from early attachment experiences, guides what we expect from others.
What is the internal working model?
Boys’ depressive symptoms were more affected by poor attachment to this parent.
Who is the father?
The study followed students over this many years.
What is every 2 years for 6 years?
This concept describes mothers serving as the main source of comfort and security during stress.
What is the “safe haven”?
When a sample is mostly 98% Caucasian, this issue may arise because it may not represent the entire population.
What is lack of generalizability?
This type of association between attachment and depression has been less studied, where each may influence the other over time.
What is bidirectional association?
Girls were more affected by poor attachment to this parent.
Who is the mother?
The amount of parents who had secondary education.
What is 20%?
These stable factors, like genetics or personality, do not fully explain the relationship between attachment quality and depression.
What are time-invariant factors?
Measuring true cause-and-effect accurately is the goal of this type of validity.
What is internal validity?
Participants in the Galicia study were followed up 2, 4, and 6 years later, but this issue increased over time.
What is attrition?