Psychological Bulletin, Vol 148(9-10), Sep-Oct 2022, 710-740; doi:10.1037/bul0000378
The current meta-analysis investigates the parental support–youth depression association and whether this association varies by gender and stress. Studies published from 1983 to February 2021 were gathered via electronic search in six databases and a hand search of 14 journals. Studies that measured support from parents and youth depression were included. Depression intervention studies and studies that measured constructs conceptually distinct from social support were excluded. Using a random-effects model, the overall effect size based on 170 studies on N = 114,674 participants was r = .27 (p