@article{ref1,
title="Youth with co-occurring delinquency and depressive symptoms: do they have better or worse delinquent outcomes?",
journal="Journal of youth and adolescence",
year="2020",
author="Siennick, Sonja E. and Widdowson, Alex O. and Feinberg, Mark E.",
volume="ePub",
number="ePub",
pages="ePub-ePub",
abstract="Delinquent youth often experience depression, but depression's impact on their future deviance is unclear. Using survey and social network data on a panel of 9th graders (N = 8701; M<sub>age</sub> at baseline = 15.6; 48% male; 85% white; 18% eligible for free or reduced-price school lunch) followed throughout high school, this study tested whether depressive symptoms predicted later deviance or deviant peer affiliations among already delinquent youth. A latent class analysis revealed that 4% of respondents showed above-average levels of delinquency but not depressive symptoms, and 3% were above average on both. Compared to the delinquent-only group, the delinquent-depressed group went on to have less deviant friends, and to engage in less deviance themselves. However, peer deviance was not a reliable explanation for the reductions in respondents' own future deviance. Depressive symptoms thus may play a protective role against continued delinquency and substance use among youth who are already delinquent, but it is not because they reduce deviant peer affiliations.<p /> <p>Language: en</p>",
language="en",
issn="0047-2891",
doi="10.1007/s10964-020-01213-1",
url="http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10964-020-01213-1"
}