New study has surprise findings on childhood depression
A child’s social environment may have only a modest effect on whether very young children become depressed, according to new Australian research.
“Our study found that even dysfunctional family relationships and poor communication styles have a limited impact on the observed mental health of a child,” Professor Jake Najman said. “This was contrary to our expectations.”
Although they then go on to say this suggests that environmental and social factors play a lesser role in a child’s depressive development than do biological factors, their study didn’t actually examine or show this. What you can say is that depression is a complicated disorder and a single, strong causative factor is not likely in most people. Third, external factors not measured or examined by this study, such as a person’s resilience could also explain this study’s findings.
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