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Belal Jamil; Jinni Su – Journal of American College Health, 2025
Objective: The COVID-19 pandemic has led to greater depression and anxiety among college students. Social support may alleviate this risk. We examined how social support from family, friends, and romantic partners may influence internalizing psychopathology outcomes associated with COVID-19-related stressful events. Participants: Participants were…
Descriptors: COVID-19, Pandemics, Stress Variables, Depression (Psychology)
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Gillig, Traci K.; Valente, Thomas W.; Baezconde-Garbanati, Lourdes – Journal of LGBT Youth, 2022
Adolescents experiencing depressive symptoms tend to withdraw from social interaction, but patterns among Latinx LGBT youth (i.e., lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender) are unclear. Latinx adolescents in the Greater Los Angeles Area (N = 549) were surveyed during two consecutive years, and longitudinal relationships among depressive symptoms,…
Descriptors: Adolescents, Hispanic Americans, LGBTQ People, Parent Role
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Ma, Kyunghee – College Student Journal, 2021
This study explored the relationship between acculturation stress and depression among first-year Chinese and Indian international graduate students enrolled at a large Southeast university in the U.S. It examined the role that social support plays in that relationship and identified changes in depression levels over one academic year. Data were…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Correlation, Acculturation, Stress Variables
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Johnson, Matthew D.; Galambos, Nancy L.; Krahn, Harvey J. – Developmental Psychology, 2021
This study examined how family context at age 18 (parent-adolescent conflict, parental support, parent education) predicted between-person variation in subjective well-being (SWB; depressive symptoms and self-esteem) trajectories from age 18 to 50 years. Timing of leaving home, getting married, and becoming a parent were explored as life…
Descriptors: Family Environment, Well Being, Parent Child Relationship, Social Support Groups
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Manor-Binyamini, Iris; Benatov, Joy; Abu-Kaf, Sarah – Journal of Intellectual & Developmental Disability, 2020
Background: This study compared Bedouin mothers of adolescents with developmental disabilities (DD) and Bedouin mothers of typically developing adolescents using measures of social support, depression, and somatisation. It further examined whether social support and raising a child with DD would predict maternal depression and somatisation beyond…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Arabs, Mothers, Adolescents
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Galambos, Nancy L.; Johnson, Matthew D.; Krahn, Harvey J. – Developmental Psychology, 2018
Six waves of data from 944 Canadian high school seniors surveyed for 25 years (age 18 to 43) were analyzed to compare three models of the temporal associations between expressed anger and depressive symptoms (anger [right arrow] depression; depression [right arrow] anger; anger [left right arrow] depression) and a between-persons differences only…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, High School Seniors, Correlation, Psychological Patterns
Hindman, Annemarie H.; Bustamante, Andres S. – Grantee Submission, 2019
This study used the Family and Child Experiences Survey, 2009 cohort, to explore the levels of depression among a nationally representative sample of Head Start teachers at the beginning and end of the preschool year. Results showed that one in three Head Start teachers reported some depression either in fall or spring, and that change in…
Descriptors: Early Intervention, Preschool Education, Depression (Psychology), Preschool Teachers
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Julal, F. S. – British Journal of Guidance & Counselling, 2016
University support services can be a beneficial resource for students coping with personal stressors. This study investigated the predictors of service use by undergraduate students during their first year at university. Participants completed self-report measures of problem-solving effectiveness, psychological distress and perceived social…
Descriptors: Foreign Countries, Undergraduate Students, Counseling Services, Help Seeking
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Infurna, Frank J.; Ram, Nilam; Gerstorf, Denis – Developmental Psychology, 2013
Perceived control plays an important role for health across adulthood and old age. However, little is known about the factors that account for such associations and whether changes in control (or control trajectory) uniquely predict major health outcomes over and above mean levels of control. Using data from the nationwide Americans' Changing…
Descriptors: Aging (Individuals), Death, Predictor Variables, Mortality Rate
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Lee, Pai-Lin; Lan, William; Lee, Charles C.-L. – Educational Gerontology, 2012
This study examined the association between three types of physical activities (PA) and depression, and the relationship between PA and later mortality. Previous studies rarely assessed these associations in one single study in randomly selected population samples. Few studies have assessed these relations by adjusting the covariate of…
Descriptors: Correlation, Longitudinal Studies, Data Analysis, Physical Activities
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Leerkes, Esther M.; Burney, Regan V. – Infancy, 2007
Predictors of prenatal and postnatal parenting efficacy were examined in a sample of 115 primiparous mothers and 73 fathers in an effort to examine the association between preexisting parental characteristics and prenatal efficacy and the association between prenatal characteristics and postnatal efficacy when aspects of the current parenting…
Descriptors: Mothers, Child Rearing, Fathers, Predictor Variables