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Affects and emotions play an important role in everyday family live. Children learn to interpret, express and regulate their emotions in these family interactions. Depression is rising steeply in adolescence and is related to affect dysregulation. Reason enough to scrutinize family interactions of adolescents with both of their parents to detect differences between families who's adolescent has been diagnosed with MDD and families who's adolescent is free of depressive symptoms.

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We developed an interesting method that quantifies different aspects of second-to-second coded interactions in a easy to interpret network picture.

Nadja Bodner
Associatie KU Leuven

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This page is a summary of: Affective family interactions and their associations with adolescent depression: A dynamic network approach, Development and Psychopathology, November 2017, Cambridge University Press,
DOI: 10.1017/s0954579417001699.
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