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Abstract
In this study, children reported on the care they provided for a parent, their parent’s general accommodation, their parent’s group-based identity accommodation, and their own depressive symptoms. Group-based identity accommodation moderated the associations between instrumental care and depressive symptoms, more so than general accommodation. The positive associations between the provision of care and depressive symptoms were most pronounced when children experienced low levels of parental group-based identity accommodation. Findings are discussed in terms of their implications for communication accommodation theory and identity scholarship.
Acknowledgments
The author would like to thank Dr. Amy Johnson and two anonymous reviewers for their constructive feedback on an earlier version of this paper.
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Notes
1. The verbatim instructions are available upon request.
2. The small subset of participants who did not complete the substantive measures were not included in the main analyses. Some participants consented to be in the study but then left the survey shortly after providing informed consent. These participants also did not fill in the open-ended text box accompanying the group-based identity accommodation measure.