Department of Psychology, Loyola University Chicago, Chicago, IL 60660, USA.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2009 Sep;38(5):684-95. doi: 10.1080/15374410903103569.
The current study examined coping strategies as mediators of the relation between maternal attachment and depressive symptoms in a sample of urban youth. Participants included 393 adolescents (M age = 12.03, SD = .85) participating in a larger study of the impact of stressful life experiences on low-income urban youth. Participants completed self-report measures of maternal attachment, coping strategies, and depressive symptoms at two time points. Results indicated that attachment was not a significant predictor of depression over time. Path analyses demonstrated limited support for a model in which higher maternal attachment predicted higher active coping, which in turn predicted fewer depressive symptoms at Time 2. Maternal attachment was a significant predictor of higher support-seeking coping, avoidant, and distraction coping. Higher maternal attachment predicted greater use of active coping strategies for boys but not for girls, and greater use of active coping strategies predicted fewer depressive symptoms for girls but not for boys.
本研究考察了应对策略在母亲依恋与城市青少年抑郁症状之间关系中的中介作用。参与者包括 393 名青少年（平均年龄=12.03，标准差=0.85），他们参加了一项关于应激性生活经历对低收入城市青年影响的更大规模研究。参与者在两个时间点完成了母亲依恋、应对策略和抑郁症状的自我报告测量。结果表明，依恋并不是随着时间推移而导致抑郁的显著预测因素。路径分析表明，支持性较低的模型，即较高的母亲依恋预测较高的积极应对，进而预测在时间 2 时较少的抑郁症状，证据有限。母亲依恋是寻求支持的应对、回避和分散注意力的应对的显著预测因素。较高的母亲依恋预测男孩更积极地应对策略，但对女孩没有影响，而更积极地应对策略预测女孩而不是男孩的抑郁症状较少。
