Although there is considerable evidence to support the relationship between coping and symptoms in offspring of depressed parents, most studies have used measures of mixed symptoms, broad internalizing symptoms, or focused on depressive symptoms only. As a result, our understanding of how coping with the stress of parental depression may be a specific correlate of symptoms of anxiety versus depression is limited. Research examining measures of mixed anxiety/depression suggests that secondary control coping may be a transdiagnostic correlate of both symptoms. Less evidences exists for whether primary control and disengagement coping are specific or transdiagnostic correlates of symptoms in youth.
