The Dynamics of Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptoms Across Days, Months, and Years
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| Titel: | The Dynamics of Self-Esteem and Depressive Symptoms Across Days, Months, and Years |
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| Autoren: | Haehner, Peter, Driver, Charles C, Hopwood, Christopher J, Luhmann, Maike, Fliedner, Karla, Bleidorn, Wiebke |
| Weitere Verfasser: | University of Zurich, Haehner, Peter |
| Quelle: | Journal of Personality and Social Psychology. 128:930-948 |
| Verlagsinformationen: | Center for Open Science, 2025. |
| Publikationsjahr: | 2025 |
| Schlagwörter: | timescale, Male, Adult, 3207 Social Psychology, Time Factors, Adolescent, 10093 Institute of Psychology, Depression, negative events, esteem, continuous time models, Self Concept, Young Adult, self, 3312 Sociology and Political Science, depression, Humans, Female, Longitudinal Studies, 150 Psychology |
| Beschreibung: | Self-esteem and depressive symptoms are important predictors of a range of societally relevant outcomes and are theorized to influence each other reciprocally over time. However, existing research offers only a limited understanding of how their dynamics unfold across different time scales. Using three datasets with different temporal resolutions, we aimed to advance our understanding of the temporal unfolding of the reciprocal dynamics between self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Across these datasets, participants (Ntotal = 6,210) rated their self-esteem and depressive symptoms between 6 and 14 times across days, months, and years, respectively. Using continuous time dynamic models, we found limited evidence for significant within-person cross-lagged effects between self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Only in the yearly dataset, a cross-lagged effect from depressive symptoms to self-esteem emerged quite consistently. However, in all datasets, cross-lagged effects were small in size (–0.04 ≤ ≤ –0.01). These findings suggest that the reciprocal dynamics between self-esteem and depressive symptoms may be less robust than commonly thought. Furthermore, exploratory analyses indicated that these effects depended on people’s overall levels of depressive symptoms, suggesting that theoretical frameworks that highlight transactions between self-esteem and depression may not generalize across all levels of depressive symptoms. Finally, self-esteem and depressive symptoms were strongly correlated within measurements, similarly stable over time, and changed similarly in response to negative life events, provoking questions as to their conceptual distinctiveness and measurement approaches. |
| Publikationsart: | Article Other literature type |
| Dateibeschreibung: | Haehner__2025____The_Dynamics_of_Self_Esteem_and_Depressive_Symptoms_Across_Days__Months__and_Years.pdf - application/pdf |
| ISSN: | 1939-1315 0022-3514 |
| DOI: | 10.31234/osf.io/h8s79_v2 |
| DOI: | 10.1037/pspp0000542 |
| DOI: | 10.5167/uzh-274820 |
| Zugangs-URL: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39804342 https://www.zora.uzh.ch/id/eprint/274820/ https://doi.org/10.5167/uzh-274820 |
| Rights: | CC BY |
| Dokumentencode: | edsair.doi.dedup.....bec94cbf5fcf3b538f659ce2fec62a0e |
| Datenbank: | OpenAIRE |
Nájsť tento článok vo Web of Science | Abstract: | Self-esteem and depressive symptoms are important predictors of a range of societally relevant outcomes and are theorized to influence each other reciprocally over time. However, existing research offers only a limited understanding of how their dynamics unfold across different time scales. Using three datasets with different temporal resolutions, we aimed to advance our understanding of the temporal unfolding of the reciprocal dynamics between self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Across these datasets, participants (Ntotal = 6,210) rated their self-esteem and depressive symptoms between 6 and 14 times across days, months, and years, respectively. Using continuous time dynamic models, we found limited evidence for significant within-person cross-lagged effects between self-esteem and depressive symptoms. Only in the yearly dataset, a cross-lagged effect from depressive symptoms to self-esteem emerged quite consistently. However, in all datasets, cross-lagged effects were small in size (–0.04 ≤ ≤ –0.01). These findings suggest that the reciprocal dynamics between self-esteem and depressive symptoms may be less robust than commonly thought. Furthermore, exploratory analyses indicated that these effects depended on people’s overall levels of depressive symptoms, suggesting that theoretical frameworks that highlight transactions between self-esteem and depression may not generalize across all levels of depressive symptoms. Finally, self-esteem and depressive symptoms were strongly correlated within measurements, similarly stable over time, and changed similarly in response to negative life events, provoking questions as to their conceptual distinctiveness and measurement approaches. |
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| ISSN: | 19391315 00223514 |
| DOI: | 10.31234/osf.io/h8s79_v2 |