2014 · Study · English
The Relation Between Risk and Protective Factors for Problem Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms, Antisocial Behavior, and Alcohol Use in Adolescence
Monahan, K. C., Oesterle, S., Rhew, I., & Hawkins, J. D.
Monahan, K. C., Oesterle, S., Rhew, I., & Hawkins, J. D. (2014). The Relation Between Risk and Protective Factors for Problem Behaviors and Depressive Symptoms, Antisocial Behavior, and Alcohol Use in Adolescence. Journal of Community Psychology, 42(5), 621–638. doi.org/10.1002/jcop.21642
Summary
Secondary analysis in the Journal of Community Psychology asking whether the CTC risk and protective factors, which were selected to predict externalising problems, also relate to depression. The sample is 2,002 students from the CTC trial surveyed in grades 8 and 10 (52% male, 58% white). The authors model cross-sectional and longitudinal associations between factors in the community, school, family, peer and individual domains and three outcomes: depressive symptoms, antisocial behaviour and alcohol use. The factors that predict antisocial behaviour and alcohol use are also associated with depressive symptoms, both at the same time point and two years later. Because internalising and externalising problems rise together through adolescence and appear to share antecedents, the authors suggest that prevention targeting the externalising risk profile may have crossover effects on depression. For European CTC coalitions, which are often asked whether the model addresses mental health, this is the empirical basis for saying that it partly does.