Abstract

CASTRO RENTERIA, Eliana V. et al. Effects of parenting styles on depression in school adolescents from a Peruvian sample. Rev. investig. psicol. [online]. 2022, vol.25, n.2, pp.39-54.  Epub Dec 19, 2022. ISSN 1560-909X.  http://dx.doi.org/10.15381/rinvp.v25i2.23811.

The objective of this research was to determine the influence exerted by parenting styles on the depression of Peruvian schooled adolescents. For this, a sample of 308 high school students was used, between men (47.1 %) and women (52.9 %), who had an average age of 14.5 years (SD = 2.218). It has a non-experimental, empirical design of associative strategy, classified within an explanatory study. To measure the chosen study variables, the following were used: the Family Parenting Styles Scale (ECF-29) and the Patient Health Questionnaire (PHQ-9); both with solid evidence of validity and reliability. The results of the structural equation model analysis revealed that 42 % (r2=.42) explains the variance of depression and 65 % (r2=.65) explains the variance of parenting styles. In addition, the best predictor of depression is the overprotective style (β=.43), followed by the authoritarian (β=.18) and indulgent (β=.17) style; unlike the democratic style, which does not explain depression in adolescents in a relevant way (β= - .09). It is concluded that depression is being explained with greater intensity by the common characteristics of the overprotective parenting style, while the democratic parenting style does not do so significantly.

Keywords : Parenting styles; depression; teens.

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