It was not the case, however, that changes in family conflict over three years were associated with changes in either depression or experiential avoidance. This is somewhat surprising, given that there was significant variance in the slopes of family conflict as well as depression and experiential avoidance and that EA and depression slopes were highly correlated. Moreover others have reported that changes in family conflict over time are associated with changes in other aspects of adolescent development, such as antisocial behavior (Fosco et al., In press). We note however, that the evidence supported the appropriateness of adopting a multi-group model (that is a model in which parameters were allowed to be different for boys and girls) and that the relationships between family conflict slopes and EA were negative for boys and positive for girls. During early adolescence, boys may be harmed less by family conflict than girls.