Chen Hsing-Jung
Soc Work Res. 2013 Jun 1;37(2):121-134. doi: 10.1093/swr/svs026.
A considerable body of literature suggests that children of a parent with depression are at heightened risk of developing maladjustments. Few studies, however, have examined protective mechanisms for this population, particularly for African American youths. Based on theoretical and empirical studies of risk and protective factors for offspring of a parent with mental illness, this study examined four adjustment outcomes associated with six protective factors among African American youths in poor communities with a primary caregiver who had depression. Families ( = 126) were drawn from an ongoing panel study, the Family and Community Health Study. Hierarchical regression analyses showed that most protective factors operated only for specific adjustment outcomes; only parental monitoring functioned across behavioral and academic domains of youth adjustment. The findings suggested that the improvement of parental monitoring skills could be essential for interventions designed to prevent multiple adjustment problems among these youths, particularly in behavioral and academic domains. Moreover, because many protective factors across different systems are likely to affect youth resilience, collaborative multisystem programs are needed to targets all of these factors.
大量文献表明，父母患有抑郁症的孩子出现适应不良的风险更高。然而，很少有研究探讨这一人群的保护机制，尤其是非裔美国青少年。基于对患有精神疾病的父母的子女的风险和保护因素的理论及实证研究，本研究考察了在贫困社区中主要照料者患有抑郁症的非裔美国青少年中，与六个保护因素相关的四种适应结果。研究中的126个家庭来自一项正在进行的追踪研究——家庭与社区健康研究。分层回归分析表明，大多数保护因素仅对特定的适应结果起作用；只有父母的监督在青少年适应的行为和学业领域都发挥作用。研究结果表明，提高父母的监督技能对于旨在预防这些青少年出现多种适应问题的干预措施可能至关重要，尤其是在行为和学业领域。此外，由于不同系统中的许多保护因素可能会影响青少年的恢复力，因此需要开展协作性多系统项目来针对所有这些因素。
