TY - JOUR
T1 - A pilot study of self-esteem as a mediator between family factors and depressive symptoms in a sample of university students
AU - Restifo, K.
AU - Akse, J.
AU - Guzman, N.V.
AU - Benjamins, C.
AU - Dick, K.
PY - 2009/1/1
Y1 - 2009/1/1
N2 - The aim of this study was to examine whether self-esteem mediates the relationship between family factors and depressive symptoms in young adults. Participants completed self-report questionnaires about overall family environment, conflict with mother or father, parental rearing, self esteem, and depressive symptoms. Self-esteem was found to mediate the relationship between the combined family factors and depressive symptoms. When examined simultaneously, none of the individual family variables uniquely predicted depressive symptoms or self-esteem. However, separate analysis of each of the three family factors provided evidence for self-esteem mediating the relationship between parental conflict and depressive symptoms, and the relationship between parental care and depressive symptoms. Self-esteem may play a role in the mechanism underlying the link between parent-offspring relationship factors and depressive symptoms.
AB - The aim of this study was to examine whether self-esteem mediates the relationship between family factors and depressive symptoms in young adults. Participants completed self-report questionnaires about overall family environment, conflict with mother or father, parental rearing, self esteem, and depressive symptoms. Self-esteem was found to mediate the relationship between the combined family factors and depressive symptoms. When examined simultaneously, none of the individual family variables uniquely predicted depressive symptoms or self-esteem. However, separate analysis of each of the three family factors provided evidence for self-esteem mediating the relationship between parental conflict and depressive symptoms, and the relationship between parental care and depressive symptoms. Self-esteem may play a role in the mechanism underlying the link between parent-offspring relationship factors and depressive symptoms.
U2 - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318199f790
DO - 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318199f790
M3 - Article
C2 - 19282682
SN - 0022-3018
VL - 197
SP - 166
EP - 171
JO - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
JF - Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
ER -