Role Of Parental Expressed Emotions As Contributing Factor Of Depressions In Adolescents

Abstract

Introduction: Parents are the child’s first role model and perform a vital part in the upbringing of their children. Parental influence has a long-lasting effect on the life of an individual and children, learn, act, react, intimate, and behave like their parents. Parental expressed emotions as determinant of adolescent depression proposed a novel framework and for understanding its mechanisms of action current study has been planned.

Methodology: A cross-sectional study was conducted to find out the parental expressed emotions as determinant of depression in adolescents. Purposive sampling technique was used to measure the effects of parental expressed emotions in adolescents. Researcher selected 500 parents (500 mothers & 500 fathers) and 500 adolescents of same parents during the period of March 2021 to October 2022.For that purpose parental expressed emotions scale and adolescents’ depression scale were used and data were analyzed by applying regression analysis as well as descriptive statistics.

Results: Finding reveals that father and mother both expressed emotions caused depression in adolescents with minor diversity as fathers expressed emotions caused 30 %, hostility 16 % Whereas, mother expressed emotions of critical comments caused 50%, hostility 0.080% depression in adolescents.

Conclusion: Parental negative expressed emotions are recommended to improve in positive ways, so that the adolescent’s psychopathology like depression can be reduce at initial level.