Kinderarmut und Vernachlässigung weisen einen stärkeren Zusammenhang mit Depressionen bei Teenagern auf als Mobbing. Deprivationsbedingte Erfahrungen wie finanzielle Belastung oder mangelnde emotionale Unterstützung hatten bei Teenagern einen länger anhaltenden Zusammenhang mit Depressionen als bedrohungsbedingte Erfahrungen wie Mobbing oder familiäre Konflikte.

I’ve linked to the news release in the post above. In this comment, for those interested, here’s the link to the peer reviewed journal article:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/epidemiology-and-psychiatric-sciences/article/effects-of-parental-adverse-childhood-experiences-aces-and-childhood-threat-and-deprivation-on-adolescent-depression-and-anxiety-an-analysis-of-the-longitudinal-study-of-australian-children/E7382B816D21C070AAAF1EBC7580F2FF

From the linked article:

**Childhood poverty and neglect show stronger links to teen depression than bullying**

A new study published in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences indicates that children whose parents faced adversity during their own childhoods are more likely to experience depression and anxiety as adolescents. The study also provides evidence that children who grow up in environments marked by deprivation, such as financial stress or parental neglect, face even higher risks. These risks tend to persist throughout adolescence, while experiences involving threat, such as bullying or exposure to violence, appear to have a stronger impact at younger ages.

The researchers found that by the age of 17, nearly one in three adolescents showed signs of depression, and nearly one in ten reported significant symptoms of anxiety. Children whose parents had experienced at least two forms of adversity during their own childhoods were about 40 percent more likely to experience depression at age 12–13 and about 20 percent more likely by age 16–17, compared to children of parents without such a background.

Exposure to deprivation-related adversity had an even stronger impact. Children who had faced two or more forms of deprivation were more than twice as likely to experience depression at age 12–13. This elevated risk persisted into later adolescence, with these children still showing a 30 percent higher risk of depression by age 16–17. In contrast, children exposed to multiple forms of threat were twice as likely to report depression at age 12–13, but this pattern did not continue at older ages.

“We were surprised to find that **deprivation-related experiences such as financial strain or lack of emotional and social support had more consistent and long-lasting associations with depression than threat-related experiences like bullying or family conflict**, with the effect particularly appearing at the ages 16-17,” Giri told PsyPost. “This suggests that the chronic absence of key resources during the entire childhood may be just as damaging, or even more so, than exposure to threat, especially when the child is aged 16-17 and that interventions should address both forms of adversity in right age-group of vulnerability.”