"Living in a shadow: Parental depression in the eyes of emerging adult children, their perspectives of the past and current psychosocial well-being."
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Parental depression can create ambiguous loss, “an incomplete loss of a loved one where boundary ambiguity (uncertainty of who is in and out of the family and performing what roles) interferes with resolution;” as the parent is physically present, but psychologically absent. This can lead to negative effects on children and impair psychosocial well-being. The purpose of this study was to examine boundary ambiguity and other factors contributing to psychosocial well-being of young adults who grew up experiencing parental depression. This was an exploratory, cross-sectional, correlational study of n = 120 young adults; using multiple regression analysis. Psychosocial well-being was accounted for by hope and length and understanding of parental depression (r = .27, p = <.001).
