Department of Sociology, State University of New York College at Buffalo, USA; Central University of Finance and Economics School of Social Development, Beijing, China.
Asian J Psychiatr. 2013 Dec;6(6):510-4. doi: 10.1016/j.ajp.2013.06.007. Epub 2013 Jul 25.
The Strain Theory of Suicide postulates that psychological strains usually precede mental disorders including suicidal behavior. This paper focuses on the effect of conflicting social value strains on the individual's psychopathology. We analyzed the data of 2031 respondents who were proxy informants for suicides and community living controls in a large scale psychological autopsy study in rural China, with the CES-D depression measure for the psychopathology. Individuals having experienced value conflicts between Confucian gender role and gender equalitarianism in modern society scored on depression significantly higher than the individuals who do not experience the value conflict, and it is also true when several other relevant variables were held constant in the multiple regression model. This study supports the hypotheses that people who confront value conflicts are likely to experience psychopathological strain, and the higher the level of strain, the stronger the depression.
自杀的紧张理论假设，心理紧张通常先于包括自杀行为在内的精神障碍。本文重点研究了冲突的社会价值紧张对个体精神病理学的影响。我们分析了在中国农村进行的一项大规模心理解剖研究中 2031 名自杀者和社区生活对照者的代理信息提供者的数据，使用 CES-D 抑郁量表来衡量精神病理学。与没有经历价值冲突的个体相比，在现代社会中经历过儒家性别角色与性别平等主义之间价值冲突的个体在抑郁得分上显著更高，当在多元回归模型中控制其他几个相关变量时，也是如此。这项研究支持了这样的假设，即面临价值冲突的人更有可能经历精神病理紧张，紧张程度越高，抑郁程度越强。
