Brief Report: "I Can't Talk about It"--Sexuality and Self-Silencing as Interactive Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent Dating Couples

Autor/inn/en	Little, Katherine C.; Welsh, Deborah P.; Darling, Nancy; Holmes, Rachel M.
Titel	Brief Report: "I Can't Talk about It"--Sexuality and Self-Silencing as Interactive Predictors of Depressive Symptoms in Adolescent Dating Couples
Quelle	In: Journal of Adolescence, 34 (2011) 4, S.789-794 (6 Seiten) PDF als Volltext Verfügbarkeit
Sprache	englisch
Dokumenttyp	gedruckt; online; Zeitschriftenaufsatz
ISSN	0140-1971
DOI	10.1016/j.adolescence.2010.04.006
Schlagwörter	Individual Characteristics; Adolescents; Dating (Social); Sexuality; Depression (Psychology); Predictor Variables; Symptoms (Individual Disorders); Longitudinal Studies; Intimacy; Correlation + Suchen Sie Ihr Suchwort? Personality characteristic; Personality traits; Persönlichkeitsmerkmal; Adolescent; Adolescence; Adoleszenz; Jugend; Jugendalter; Jugendlicher; Sexualität; Prädiktor; Psychiatrische Symptomatik; Longitudinal study; Longitudinal method; Longitudinal methods; Längsschnittuntersuchung; Intimität; Korrelation
Abstract	This longitudinal study examined sexual intercourse within adolescent romantic relationships as a couple-level moderator of the association between adolescent individual characteristics and depressive symptoms. Two hundred nine middle- and older-adolescent dating couples (aged 14-17 and 17-21, respectively) reported on their own self-silencing, depressive symptoms, and sexual behaviors. At Time 1, frequency of sexual intercourse significantly moderated the relationship between self-silencing and depressive symptoms, such that adolescents higher in self-silencing engaging in more frequent sex were at risk for clinically significant levels of depression. Adolescents who were low in self-silencing were not at increased risk for depression, regardless of frequency of sex. Self-silencing also significantly predicted increases in depressive symptoms from Time 1 to Time 2. Implications include the possibility that frequent sex in highly self-silencing adolescents exacerbates psychological depletion believed to link self-silencing to depressive symptoms, and that this depletion compounds over time. (Contains 1 figure and 2 tables.) (As Provided).
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Update	2017/4/10