التفاصيل البيبلوغرافية
| العنوان: |
Trends in adolescent depressive symptoms from 2010 to 2019 in Norway: Real increase or artifacts of measurements? |
| المؤلفون: |
Nilsen, Sondre Aasen, Stormark, Kjell Morten, Bang, Lasse, Brunborg, Geir Scott, Larsen, Marit Hjellset, Breivik, Kyrre |
| بيانات النشر: |
Center for Open Science |
| سنة النشر: |
2024 |
| الوصف: |
Background: An increase in adolescent self-reported depressive symptoms has been reported in many countries. Whether these trends are influenced by changing reporting of symptoms has been much debated yet rarely examined from a measurement perspective. We examined whether measurement noninvariance, as indicative of changing perceptions and reporting of symptoms, may influence the assessment of time trends in adolescent depressive symptoms. Methods: Data stem from the nationwide annual cross-sectional Ungdata-surveys (2010-2019) of 560,712 responses from adolescents aged 13-19 years. Depressive symptoms were measured with the Kandel and Davies’s six-item Depressive Mood Inventory. Using structural equation modelling, measurement invariance across time by gender and age was examined, and the consequences of noninvariance on trends in latent symptom scores were estimated. Results: Across most conditions, the instrument was found invariant across time, and the few non-invariant parameters detected had negligible impact on trend estimates. From 2014, latent mean depressive symptom scores increased among girls. For boys, a u-shaped pattern was detected, whereby an initial decrease in symptoms was followed by an increase from 2016. Larger issues of noninvariance were found across age in girls and between genders. Conclusions: From a measurement perspective, the notion that changed reporting of symptoms has been an important driver of the increase in depressive symptoms was not supported. Thus, other causes of these trends should be considered. However, noninvariance across age (in girls) and between genders highlight that depressive symptoms are not necessarily perceived equivalently from early to late adolescence and across gender. |
| نوع الوثيقة: |
other/unknown material |
| اللغة: |
unknown |
| DOI: |
10.31234/osf.io/4g8hu |
| الإتاحة: |
https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/4g8huTest |
| حقوق: |
https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcodeTest |
| رقم الانضمام: |
edsbas.9CF8BC45 |
| قاعدة البيانات: |
BASE |
