it is not surprising that the Anxiety Problems scale demonstrated lower reliability when compared to the Affective Problems scale. Future research may benefit from using additional measures of symptoms of anxiety that capture a wider range of symptoms or include a greater number of items. Further, the RSQ parental depression version probes for ways in which youth cope with parental depression, an uncontrollable source of stress in their lives. Secondary control coping includes strategies that are most useful in situations that are uncontrollable; therefore, secondary control coping may show stronger associations with uncontrollable stressors (e.g., depression) than controllable ones. Additional tests of the specificity of secondary control coping as it relates to symptoms of anxiety and depression in controllable stressful situations are needed to strengthen these findings. Finally, the present study examined cross-sectional relations among symptoms and their correlates. Cross-sectional analyses provide an important first step in understanding specificity in coping and symptoms of anxiety and depression in this sample of high-risk youth. However, causality cannot be inferred from these analyses. In order to better understand the relationship between these mechanisms of risk and symptoms in youth, the next step in this research are prospective studies. Although it is plausible
