Depressive Symptoms in Young Adults: The Influences of the Early Home Environment and Early Educational Child Care

The relationship between depressive symptoms in young adults, the quality of the early home environment, and early educational child care was investigated in young adults randomly assigned to receive early childhood intervention in the Abecedarian study. Of the original 111 infants enrolled (98% Afr...

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Published in:Child development 2007-05, Vol.78 (3), p.746-756
Main Authors: McLaughlin, Andrea E., Campbell, Frances A., Pungello, Elizabeth P., Skinner, Martie
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Adult and adolescent clinical studies
Adults
African Americans
African Americans - ethnology
Biological and medical sciences
Child Care
Child development
Childhood
Childhood mental disorders
Children
Comparative Analysis
Control Groups
Correlation
Culture
Depression
Depression (Psychology)
Depression - diagnosis
Depression - ethnology
Depressive disorders
Early Childhood Education
Early Intervention
Empirical Articles
Families & family life
Family - psychology
Family Environment
Family Influence
Female
Followup Studies
Home
Home environment
Humans
Infant
Infant Care
Male
Medical sciences
Mental depression
Mental health
Mood disorders
Outcomes of Treatment
Poverty
Preschool children
Preschool education
Preschools
Psychological Theory
Psychology
Psychology. Psychoanalysis. Psychiatry
Psychopathology. Psychiatry
Quality of Life
Social Environment
Socioeconomic status
Symptoms (Individual Disorders)
T score
Teaching
United States
Young Adults
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Summary:The relationship between depressive symptoms in young adults, the quality of the early home environment, and early educational child care was investigated in young adults randomly assigned to receive early childhood intervention in the Abecedarian study. Of the original 111 infants enrolled (98% African American), 104 participated in an age-21 follow-up. Those who had early treatment reported fewer depressive symptoms. The protective effects of the early childhood program were further supported by a significant home environment by treatment interaction. Negative effects of lower quality home environments on young adult depressive symptoms were almost entirely offset by preschool treatment, whereas depressive symp increased as the quality of the early home environment decreased for those in the control group.
ISSN:0009-3920
1467-8624
DOI:10.1111/j.1467-8624.2007.01030.x