This seminar will include a presentation by Hedvig Sultson and Eike Siilbek from the National Institute for Health Development.

This presentation will explore why and how to study mediation effects in the context of mental health – that is, the relationships between different risk and protective factors and the ways in which their effects unfold through one another. We will present a study examining the associations between family and peer relationships and depressive symptoms in adolescents, and whether these associations are mediated by difficulties in affect regulation. We will also compare mediation mechanisms across age groups and genders. The analyses are based on data from the Estonian Children’s Mental Health Study.