The influences of three risk factors (insecure attachment, maternal depressive symptoms, andeconomic risk) on children's depressive symptomatology were examined. Subjects were85 children from a range of income levels; all subjects were between 7 and 9 years of age.Children's depressive symptomatology was assessed with the Dimensions of DepressionProfile for Children and Adolescents. Results indicated that children at high economic risk weremore likely to exhibit depressive symptomatology than were children at low economic risk.Security of attachment was significantly related to children's depressive symptomatology.In addition, a significant relation was noted between children's depressivesymptomatology and the depressive symptomatology of their mothers. Contrary to expectations,no significant relation was found between maternal depressive symptomatology and security ofattachment. A multiple regression analysis revealed that security of attachment, maternaldepressive symptomatology, and economic risk accounted for 47% of the variability inchildren's depression scores. Secure attachment served as a buffer; economic risk wasassociated with depressive symptoms only among insecurely attached children.