Social Development of Depression under Negative Peer Experiences

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  • February 26, 2019
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  • Yorke, Brendan J.
    • Affiliation: College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Psychology and Neuroscience
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  • A social developmental model that includes identity and social experience could provide useful insight for the prevention of adolescent depression. The protective outcomes of high ethnic identity may depend on one’s social environment. African-American and Latino- American students were asked to self-report their depressive symptoms, ethnic identity, peer discrimination experiences, and bicultural stress. Latent curve analyses were used to examine predictors of the trajectory of depressive symptoms. Across ethnicities, under conditions of high peer discrimination, results suggest that higher levels of ethnic identity were associated with less steep decreases in depressive symptoms. Ethnic identity did not have this association under conditions of low peer discrimination. Latino Americans experienced more Bicultural Stress indicating potential differences between groups. Interventions that address depression in multicultural settings should consider an individual’s peer environment.
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  • Prinstein, Mitchell J.
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  • Bachelor of Arts
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  • University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
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