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The Impact of Academic Achievement and Parental Practices on Depressive Symptom Trajectories Among Chinese Adolescents.


ABSTRACT: Though depressive symptoms tend to increase in early adolescence, the trajectories of these symptoms may vary strongly. This longitudinal study investigated the extent to which the distinct developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms were predicted by adolescents' academic achievement and perceived parental practices in a sample of Chinese young adolescents (N = 2,576). The results showed four trajectory profiles of depressive symptoms: low-stable (75%), low-increasing (11%), high-stable (9%), and high-decreasing (5%). Adolescents with high academic achievement were more likely to be classified into the low-stable, low-increasing, and high-decreasing profiles than into the high-stable depressive symptom profile. Moreover, students who perceived greater parental autonomy support were more likely to be in the low-stable and low-increasing profiles than the high-stable profile, whereas adolescents perceiving more parental psychological control had higher odds of being in the low-increasing rather than the low-stable profile. Parental educational involvement was unrelated to students' depressive symptom trajectories. In sum, Chinese adolescents with higher academic achievement and who perceived more parental autonomy support, and less psychological control, were at lower risk of experiencing depressive symptoms.

SUBMITTER: Qin X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8380233 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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The Impact of Academic Achievement and Parental Practices on Depressive Symptom Trajectories Among Chinese Adolescents.

Qin Xingna X   Kaufman Tessa T   Laninga-Wijnen Lydia L   Ren Ping P   Zhang Yunyun Y   Veenstra René R  

Research on child and adolescent psychopathology 20210513 10


Though depressive symptoms tend to increase in early adolescence, the trajectories of these symptoms may vary strongly. This longitudinal study investigated the extent to which the distinct developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms were predicted by adolescents' academic achievement and perceived parental practices in a sample of Chinese young adolescents (N = 2,576). The results showed four trajectory profiles of depressive symptoms: low-stable (75%), low-increasing (11%), high-stable (  ...[more]

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