Publication
The Longitudinal Association Between Self-esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents: Separating Between-Person Effects from Within-Person Effects
Masselink, M., Van Roekel, E., Hankin, B. L., Keijsers, L., Lodder, G. M. A., Vanhalst, J., Verhagen, M., Young, J. F. & Oldehinkel, A. J., 2018, In : European Journal of Personality. 32, 6, p. 653-671 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › Academic › peer-review

Documents
- The Longitudinal Association Between Self‐esteem and Depressive Symptoms in Adolescents
Final publisher's version, 2.21 MB, PDF document
DOI
Many longitudinal studies have investigated whether self-esteem predicts depressive symptoms (vulnerability model) or the other way around (scar model) in adolescents. The most common method of analysis has been the cross-lagged panel model (CLPM). The CLPM does not separate between-person effects from within-person effects, making it unclear whether the results from previous studies actually reflect the within-person effects or whether they reflect differences between people. We investigated the associations between self-esteem and depressive symptoms at the within-person level, using random intercept cross-lagged panel models (RI-CLPMs). To get an impression of the magnitude of possible differences between the RI-CLPM and the CLPM, we compared the results of both models. We used data from three longitudinal adolescent samples (age range: 7-18 years; study 1: N = 1948; study 2: N = 1455; study 3: N = 316). Intervals between the measurements were 1-1.5 years. Single-paper meta-analyses showed support for small within-person associations from self-esteem to depressive symptoms, but not the other way around, thus only providing some support for the vulnerability model. The cross-lagged associations in the aggregated RI-CLPM and CLPM showed similar effect sizes. Overall, our results show that over 1- to 1.5-year time intervals, low self-esteem may negatively influence depressive symptoms over time within adolescents, but only weakly so. (c) 2018 The Authors. European Journal of Personality published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of European Association of Personality Psychology
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 653-671 |
Number of pages | 19 |
Journal | European Journal of Personality |
Volume | 32 |
Issue number | 6 |
Publication status | Published - 2018 |
- self-esteem, depression, random intercept cross-lagged panel model, within-person effects, longitudinal data, PROSPECTIVELY PREDICTS DEPRESSION, RANDOM-EFFECTS MODELS, GOODNESS-OF-FIT, YOUNG ADULTHOOD, RISK-FACTOR, TIME, VULNERABILITY, HOPELESSNESS, COMPONENTS, EPISODE
Keywords
Download statistics
ID: 75029494