Department of Psychology, University of California, Los Angeles, Box 951563, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1563, USA.
J Abnorm Child Psychol. 2011 Nov;39(8):1227-38. doi: 10.1007/s10802-011-9537-z.
Building on interpersonal theories of depression, the current study sought to explore whether early childhood social withdrawal serves as a risk factor for depressive symptoms and diagnoses in young adulthood. The researchers hypothesized that social impairment at age 15 would mediate the association between social withdrawal at age 5 and depression by age 20. This mediational model was tested in a community sample of 702 Australian youth followed from mother's pregnancy to youth age 20. Structural equation modeling analyses found support for a model in which childhood social withdrawal predicted adolescent social impairment, which, in turn, predicted depression in young adulthood. Additionally, gender was found to moderate the relationship between adolescent social impairment and depression in early adulthood, with females exhibiting a stronger association between social functioning and depression at the symptom and diagnostic level. This study illuminates one potential pathway from early developing social difficulties to later depressive symptoms and disorders.
基于抑郁的人际关系理论，本研究旨在探讨儿童期社交退缩是否是青年期抑郁症状和诊断的风险因素。研究人员假设，15 岁时的社交障碍会在 5 岁时的社交退缩和 20 岁时的抑郁之间起中介作用。该中介模型在一个从母亲怀孕到青年 20 岁的 702 名澳大利亚青少年的社区样本中进行了测试。结构方程模型分析发现，一个模型得到了支持，即儿童期社交退缩预测青少年社交障碍，而后者又预测青年期的抑郁。此外，研究还发现，性别调节了青少年社交障碍与成年早期抑郁之间的关系，女性在症状和诊断水平上表现出社交功能与抑郁之间更强的关联。本研究揭示了从早期社交困难到后期抑郁症状和障碍的一个潜在途径。
