Park Kiwoong, Yang Tse-Chuan
Department of Sociology, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New York, 351 Arts and Sciences Building, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, USA.
Department of Sociology, Center for Social and Demographic Analysis, University at Albany, State University of New York, 315 Arts and Sciences Building, 1400 Washington Ave., Albany, NY 12222, USA.
Sociol Q. 2017;58(3):429-446. doi: 10.1080/00380253.2017.1331718. Epub 2017 Jun 19.
Using the National Longitudinal Surveys of Youth 1979, this study examines the roles of alcohol and substance use as mediators in the mechanism between self-esteem and depression, and investigates whether the mechanism works for both men and women. Results demonstrate that alcohol and substance use during young adulthood mediates the effect of self-esteem on depression among men. Furthermore, self-esteem during young adulthood remains a determinant of high depression in middle adulthood. However, we did not find evidence to support that same mechanism among women. Our findings provide insight into how self-esteem affects depression over the transition from young to middle adulthood, and elucidate potential gendered responsivity to low self-esteem.
本研究利用1979年全国青年纵向调查，考察了酒精和物质使用作为自尊与抑郁之间机制的中介作用，并调查了该机制是否对男性和女性都适用。结果表明，青年期饮酒和使用物质介导了自尊对男性抑郁的影响。此外，青年期的自尊仍是中年期高抑郁水平的一个决定因素。然而，我们没有找到证据支持女性存在同样的机制。我们的研究结果为理解自尊如何在从青年到中年的过渡阶段影响抑郁提供了见解，并阐明了对低自尊潜在的性别反应差异。
