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The association between depression and parental ethnic affiliation and socioeconomic status: a 27-year longitudinal US community study

Abstract

Purpose  

This study examined the extent to which parental SES and ethnic affiliation during adolescence are associated with Center
for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale (CES-D) scores compatible with depression during adulthood.

Methods  

The data were extracted from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY79) conducted in 1979 on several ethnic groups
(African-Americans, Hispanics and Others). These data included paternal socio-economic status (SES) when respondents (N = 8,331) were on average aged 18. The CES-D was re-administered 27 years later to assess the presence of depression.

Results  

Adjusted for age, binary logistic regression modeling showed that parental low SES increased the risk of CES-D of scores compatible
with depression across ethnic groups for both genders. A gradient was observed of an increased likelihood of depression scores
with lower parental SES levels: among African-American respondents, depression scores were highest at the lowest parental
SES levels (OR = 3.25, 95% CI 2.19–4.84) and the risk dropped at medium (OR = 3.00, 95% CI 1.96–4.59), and highest SES levels
(OR = 1.85, 95% CI 1.12–3.07). An analogous pattern was generally found for each ethnic group.

Conclusions  

Low parental SES during adolescence significantly increases the likelihood of CES-D scores compatible with depression during
adulthood across US ethnic groups and in both genders.

  • Content Type Journal Article
  • Category Original Paper
  • Pages 1-6
  • DOI 10.1007/s00127-011-0424-2
  • Authors
    • Sophie D. Walsh, Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel
    • Stephen Z. Levine, Department of Criminology, Bar-Ilan University, 52900 Ramat Gan, Israel
    • Itzhak Levav, Mental Health Services, Ministry of Health, Jerusalem, Israel
    • Journal Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology
    • Online ISSN 1433-9285
    • Print ISSN 0933-7954
Posted in: Journal Article Abstracts on 08/26/2011 | Link to this post on IFP |
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