Department of Psychology and Human Development, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN 37203-5721, USA.
J Abnorm Psychol. 2011 Aug;120(3):511-27. doi: 10.1037/a0024685.
In a four-wave, cohort-longitudinal design with a community sample of 515 children and adolescents (grades 2 through 9), this study examined the longitudinal structure of and prospective interrelations between maladaptive cognitions and depressive symptoms. Multigroup structural equation modeling generated four major findings. First, the longitudinal structures of maladaptive cognitions and depressive symptoms consist of a single time-invariant factor and a series of time-varying factors. Second, evidence supported a model in which depressive symptoms predicted negative cognitions but not the reverse. Third, the time-invariant components of cognition and depression were highly correlated. Fourth, the strength of the depression-to-cognition relation increased with age. Implications regarding the mechanisms underlying clinical interventions with depressed children are discussed.
在一项四波、队列纵向设计中，对 515 名儿童和青少年（2 至 9 年级）的社区样本进行了研究，考察了适应不良认知与抑郁症状之间的纵向结构和前瞻性相互关系。多群组结构方程模型得出了四项主要发现。首先，适应不良认知和抑郁症状的纵向结构由单一的时不变因素和一系列时变因素组成。其次，有证据支持这样一种模型，即抑郁症状预测消极认知，但反之则不然。第三，认知和抑郁的时不变成分高度相关。第四，抑郁与认知的关系强度随年龄增长而增强。讨论了与对抑郁儿童进行临床干预相关的机制。
