Department of Social Work, The Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shatin, NT, Hong Kong.
Am J Community Psychol. 2010 Mar;45(1-2):1-16. doi: 10.1007/s10464-009-9284-2.
Using data from an ongoing longitudinal study of 5,164 adolescents and their parents from seven cities in mainland China, this study investigated how social capital embedded in the family and the community, together with family human capital and financial capital, influenced the depressive symptoms of urban Chinese adolescents within an integrative framework. The structural equation modeling results suggested that higher community social capital was associated with lower level of adolescent depressive symptoms and was the strongest predictor among all these contextual factors. Family social capital played a significant role in mediating the effects of all other contextual factors on adolescent depressive symptoms. Unexpectedly, higher family financial capital predicted increased depressive symptoms both directly and indirectly through its negative effect on family social capital. As for gender, female adolescents reported more depressive symptoms as a result of less available family social capital. Implications of these findings for theory, practice, policy, and future research are discussed.
利用来自中国大陆七个城市的 5164 名青少年及其父母的纵向研究数据，本研究采用整合框架，调查了家庭和社区中嵌入的社会资本，以及家庭人力资本和经济资本如何影响城市青少年的抑郁症状。结构方程模型的结果表明，较高的社区社会资本与青少年抑郁症状的水平较低有关，并且是所有这些背景因素中最强的预测因素。家庭社会资本在中介所有其他背景因素对青少年抑郁症状的影响方面发挥了重要作用。出乎意料的是，较高的家庭经济资本通过对家庭社会资本的负面影响，既直接又间接地预测了抑郁症状的增加。至于性别，由于家庭社会资本不足，女青少年报告的抑郁症状更多。讨论了这些发现对理论、实践、政策和未来研究的意义。
