Within‐person longitudinal associations between depressive symptoms and interpersonal problems in adolescent girls
Leehyun Yoon, Kelsey E Magee, Stephanie D Stepp, Erika E Forbes, Kate E Keenan, Alison E Hipwell, Amanda E Guyer · 2026
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Leehyun Yoon and team tested how low mood signs and people troubles shape each other in teen girls over time. Their 2026 study trailed 543 girls from the Pittsburgh Girls Study across four rounds, mean ages 16.5 to 19.3 years, with self-reports of low mood signs and eight kinds of people troubles. Past work mostly weighed gaps between people, leaving within-person paths murky, so the team asked if links ran one way or both ways.
Within-person rises in low mood signs foretold later rises in over-caring and socially shy troubles, but those troubles did not foretell later low mood signs back. Low mood signs and bossy troubles, by contrast, foretold each other over time. The team flags bossy troubles as a possible fix target for breaking joint backing with low mood. Treating low mood signs may bring social gains by cutting later over-caring and shy troubles.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Leehyun Yoon, Kelsey E Magee, Stephanie D Stepp, Erika E Forbes, Kate E Keenan, Alison E Hipwell, Amanda E Guyer |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 50 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |