Szwedo David E, Chango Joanna M, Allen Joseph P
a Department of Psychology , University of Virginia.
J Clin Child Adolesc Psychol. 2015;44(4):538-50. doi: 10.1080/15374416.2014.881290. Epub 2014 Mar 19.
Youths' ability to positively cope with negative emotions and their self-perceived friendship competence were examined as potential moderators of links between multiple aspects of romantic relationships and residualized increases in depressive symptoms from late adolescence into early adulthood. Participants included 184 teens (46% male; 42% non-White) assessed at ages 15 to 19 and 21, as well as a subsample of 62 romantic partners of participants assessed when teens were 18. Results of hierarchical linear regressions showed that positive coping served as a buffer against depressive symptoms for romantically involved adolescents and also for teens receiving more intense emotional support from their romantic partners, but not for youth whose relationship had ended and had not been replaced by a new relationship. Higher perceived friendship competence served as a buffer against depressive symptoms for youth enduring the dissolution and nonreplacement of their romantic relationship. Greater use of positive coping skills and higher perceived friendship competence may help protect adolescents from depressive symptoms in different types of romantic experiences.
青少年积极应对负面情绪的能力及其自我感知的友谊能力，被作为浪漫关系多个方面与从青春期晚期到成年早期抑郁症状残余增加之间联系的潜在调节因素进行了研究。参与者包括184名青少年（46%为男性；42%为非白人），在15至19岁和21岁时接受评估，以及62名参与者的浪漫伴侣子样本，这些伴侣在青少年18岁时接受评估。分层线性回归结果表明，积极应对对恋爱中的青少年以及从浪漫伴侣那里获得更强烈情感支持的青少年起到了缓冲抑郁症状的作用，但对恋爱关系结束且未被新关系取代的青少年则没有作用。较高的友谊能力感知对经历浪漫关系解体且未被取代的青少年起到了缓冲抑郁症状的作用。更多地使用积极应对技巧和较高的友谊能力感知可能有助于保护青少年在不同类型的浪漫经历中免受抑郁症状的影响。
