Department of Psychology, Institute of Psychiatry, DeCrespigny Park, Denmark Hill, London, United Kingdom.
J Adolesc. 2010 Oct;33(5):653-61. doi: 10.1016/j.adolescence.2009.11.005. Epub 2010 Jan 29.
Young people in secure accommodation are at high risk of depression and self-harm. This study investigates the relationship between depressive symptoms, negative self-schemas and the cognitive vulnerability to depression in 38 young people in secure accommodation. The impact of a) current suicidal ideation and b) a previous history of self-harm behaviour on latent negative self-schemas was examined using a mood induction task. The low mood condition indicated these young people had a latent cognitive vulnerability to depression. However, this vulnerability was exacerbated in the context of current suicidal ideation but not by a history of self-harm behaviours. An unexpected finding was the negative self-schemas of young people from ethnic minority backgrounds were particularly susceptible to the mood induction. The findings are discussed both in terms of the cognitive vulnerabilities of adolescents detained in secure accommodation and the role of participant characteristics on the validity of mood induction studies in adolescence.
安置住所中的年轻人有很高的抑郁和自残风险。本研究调查了 38 名安置住所中的年轻人的抑郁症状、消极自我图式与抑郁认知易感性之间的关系。使用情绪诱导任务来检验 a) 当前自杀意念和 b) 之前自残行为史对潜在消极自我图式的影响。在心境低落的情况下，这表明这些年轻人有潜在的抑郁认知易感性。然而，这种易感性在当前自杀意念的情况下会加剧，但自残行为史不会。一个意外的发现是，少数民族背景的年轻人的消极自我图式特别容易受到情绪诱导的影响。研究结果既讨论了被安置在安全住所中的青少年的认知弱点，也讨论了参与者特征对青少年情绪诱导研究有效性的作用。
