The current study aims to explore whether stress associated with parental depression and strategies used to cope with this stress in youth demonstrate specificity to symptoms of anxiety and depression. Past findings examining predictors of symptoms of anxiety and depression inform hypotheses for the current study: (1) Youth stress associated with parental depressive symptoms will be a transdiagnostic correlate of symptoms of anxiety and depression in youth. (2) Secondary control coping will be a transdiagnostic correlate of symptoms of anxiety and depression in youth. Previous research does not provide consistent evidence for primary control and disengagement coping as either specific or transdiagnostic correlates of symptoms in youth; analyses of these two types of coping were considered exploratory.
