Maternal Depressive Symptoms, Adolescent Daughters' Substance Use, and Father Residence in Minority Families.

Maternal depression has been linked to substance use in adolescents, but the mechanisms of the relationship between maternal depression and adolescent substance use are less clear. Specifically, previous literature has overlooked the role of fathers as a potential protective or exacerbating factor in buffering this relationship. The goal of this study was to investigate the association between maternal depressive symptoms and adolescent substance use, exploring father's residential status as a moderator for adolescents living with a mother with depressive symptoms.

Ethnicity moderates the outcomes of self-enhancement and self-improvement themes in expressive writing.

The current study examined whether writing content related to self-enhancing (viz., downward social comparison and situational attributions) and self-improving (viz., upward social comparison and persistence) motivations were differentially related to expressive writing outcomes among 17 Asian American and 17 European American participants.