Hopelessness is an important symptom of adolescent depression, being associated with both risk of suicide and poor treatment response, but predictors of hopelessness are understudied. Conflict with parents is common in adolescent depression, but parents and adolescents often disagree when reporting conflict severity. Discrepancy in reporting may be an indicator of the parent–adolescent dyad lacking a shared representation of the state of their relationship. This could make conflicts seem unresolvable to the adolescent, leading to expectations of persistent stress and lack of support, increasing hopelessness. This study employed latent difference scores, ordinal regression and cross-validation to evaluate the hypothesis that discrepancy in report of parent–adolescent conflict would predict hopelessness among depressed adolescents. Parents reporting less conflict than the adolescent was associated with increased adolescent hopelessness, giving preliminary support to the hypothesis.

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使用父母与青少年冲突报告中的线人差异预测青少年抑郁症的绝望

绝望是青少年抑郁症的一个重要症状，与自杀风险和治疗反应不佳有关，但对绝望的预测因素研究不足。与父母的冲突在青少年抑郁症中很常见，但父母和青少年在报告冲突严重程度时往往意见不一。报告中的差异可能是父母-青少年二人缺乏对他们关系状态的共同表示的一个指标。这可能会使青少年觉得冲突无法解决，导致预期持续压力和缺乏支持，增加绝望。本研究采用潜在差异评分、有序回归和交叉验证来评估父母与青少年冲突报告中的差异将预测抑郁青少年的绝望的假设。