Depression and perception of family functioning in children and their parents

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Abstract
This investigation examined depression and other forms of psychopathology, perception of family functioning, and marital satisfaction in nonclinic, nondepressed clinic, and depressed clinic children and their parents. Children with greater pathology came from families with greater pathology. Mothers of depressed children were more chronically depressed than mothers of the other children. Clinic children have more negative perceptions of their families and have parents who are less satisfied with their marriages than do normal controls, and depressed clinic children perceive their families in a more negative light than do nondepressed clinic children.