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Shaming experiences and the association between adolescent depression and psychosocial risk factors

Authors: Cecilia Åslund, Kent W. Nilsson, Bengt Starrin, Rickard L. Sjöberg

Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry | Issue 5/2007

Abstract

Objective

To investigate whether psychosocial risk factors such as parental separation, parental unemployment and experiences of sexual abuse are associated with adolescent depression, and whether shaming experiences (defined as experiences of being degraded, or ridiculed by others) may account for such an association.

Method

A total of 5048 Swedish adolescents answered the Survey of Adolescent Life in Vestmanland 2004 (SALVe—2004) during classhours. The survey included questions about depressive symptoms, parental separation, parental unemployment and experiences of sexual abuse.

Results

The psychosocial risk factors studied were all associated with depression, but several of these associations became non-significant when a factor for shaming experiences was entered into the models. The explained variance for depression furthermore increased from approximately 4–7% to 17–20% when shame was included.

Conclusion

Shaming experiences may mediate part of the association between psychosocial risk factors and depression. These findings may have important implications for the understanding of psychotherapeutic treatment of the effects of risk factors in depressed patients.

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Title: Shaming experiences and the association between adolescent depression and psychosocial risk factors
Authors: Cecilia Åslund
Kent W. Nilsson
Bengt Starrin
Rickard L. Sjöberg
Publication date: 01-08-2007
Publisher: D. Steinkopff-Verlag
Published in: European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry / Issue 5/2007
Print ISSN: 1018-8827
Electronic ISSN: 1435-165X
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-006-0564-1

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