Parent-Child Hostility and Child and Adolescent Depression Symptoms: The Direction of Effects, Role of Genetic Factors and Gender

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PRTW
Summary
316 Welsh families and 1, 075 Welsh and English twin pairs participated in a study to examine whether hostile parent-child
relationships confer an environmental risk for depression in youth; the influence of both parent and child gender were also
examined. Girls and mothers had a significant, bi-directional relationship between mother-daughter hostility and depression
symptoms, but no such finding existed for boys.
 
Citation
Lewis, G., Collishaw, S., Thapar, A. & Harold, G.T. (2014). Parent-child hostility and child and adolescent depression symptoms: The direction of effects, role of genetic factors and gender. European Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, 23, 317-327. doi:10.1007/s00787-013-0460-4.