Een onderzoek naar het verband tussen ouderlijke afwijzing, depressie en agressie in de adolescentie

Abstract

Although previous studies have demonstrated that rejection is strongly associated with adolescent depression and aggression, most of the attention has focused only on peer rejection; parental rejection has received much less attention in adolescent depression - aggression studies. In this study 1,329 adolescents participated. All filled in questionnaires on depression, aggression and parental rejection. It was demonstrated that parental rejection, when mediated through adolescent depression, helped to explain adolescent aggression. Additional analyses demonstrated that this was partially dependent on the adolescent's age and gender.