Rudolph Karen D, Troop-Gordon Wendy, Lambert Sharon F, Natsuaki Misaki N
University of Illinois,Urbana-Champaign.
North Dakota State University.
Dev Psychopathol. 2014 Nov;26(4 Pt 2):1423-44. doi: 10.1017/S0954579414001126.
This research explored sex differences in the pathways linking pubertal timing to depression across 4 years. A sample of 167 youth (M age = 12.41 years, SD = 1.19) and their caregivers completed measures of puberty and semistructured interviews of interpersonal stress and youth depression. Youth reported on psychological (negative self-focus, anxious arousal) and social-behavioral (coping) characteristics; parents reported on youths' social-behavioral characteristics (withdrawal/social problems) and deviant peer affiliations. Early maturation predicted stable high trajectories of depression in girls; although early maturing boys showed low initial levels of depression, they did not differ from girls by the final wave of the study. Latent growth curve analyses identified several psychological, social-behavioral, and interpersonal pathways accounting for the contribution of pubertal timing to initial and enduring risk for depression in girls as well as emerging risk for depression in boys. These findings provide novel insight into multilevel processes accounting for sex differences in depression across the adolescent transition.
本研究在4年时间里探究了青春期发育时间与抑郁之间联系途径中的性别差异。167名青少年（平均年龄=12.41岁，标准差=1.19）及其照料者组成的样本完成了青春期测量以及关于人际压力和青少年抑郁的半结构化访谈。青少年报告了心理（消极自我关注、焦虑唤醒）和社会行为（应对）特征；父母报告了青少年的社会行为特征（退缩/社交问题）和不良同伴关系。早熟预示着女孩抑郁水平持续处于高位；尽管早熟男孩最初的抑郁水平较低，但在研究的最后阶段，他们与女孩没有差异。潜在增长曲线分析确定了几条心理、社会行为和人际途径，这些途径解释了青春期发育时间对女孩抑郁初始和持续风险以及男孩抑郁新出现风险的影响。这些发现为解释青少年过渡期间抑郁性别差异的多层次过程提供了新的见解。
