title: The Moderating Role of Maternal Depression in the Relation Between Adolescent Behavioral Inhibition and Maternal Critical Expressed Emotion.
abstract: Behavioral inhibition is associated with a range of negative affective states and behaviors in adolescents which may elicit critical expressed emotion (EE-Crit) among mothers. Whether the relation between adolescent behavioral inhibition and maternal EE-Crit may depend on the presence of maternal depression is unknown. Therefore, a total of N = 81 biological mother/adolescent daughter dyads were recruited: mothers with a history of major depressive disorder (n = 45) and never-depressed mothers (non-depressed: n = 36). Structured clinical interviews were administered, daughters reported their behavioral inhibition and mothers reported daughter-directed maternal EE-Crit. Maternal depression was a moderator such that higher daughter behavioral inhibition was associated with greater EE-Crit among depressed mothers, specifically. There were no group differences for daughter behavioral inhibition or maternal EE-Crit. These findings highlight the significant role that maternal depression may play in relation to adolescent behavioral inhibition, EE-Crit, and risk for the development of adolescent psychopathology.
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX, 77204, USA. whmellick@uh.edu.
authors.forename: William
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Mellick
authors.affiliation: Department of Psychology, University of Houston, 126 Heyne Building, Houston, TX, 77204, USA.
authors.forename: Carla
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Sharp
authors.affiliation: University of Texas School of Public Health, Austin Regional Campus, 1616 Guadalupe St., Suite 6300, Austin, TX, 78701, USA.
authors.forename: Anna
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Wilkinson
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000294:Adolescent Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D000328:Adult; D016241:Child of Impaired Parents; D003865:Major Depressive Disorder / Q000503:physiopathology*; D019260:Expressed Emotion / Q000502:physiology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007266:Inhibition, Psychological; D008425:Maternal Behavior / Q000502:physiology*; D009034:Mother-Child Relations
keywords: Adolescence; BIS/BAS; Girls; Major depressive disorder; Offspring