Mental Health Institute of The Second Xiangya Hospital and Key Laboratory of Psychiatry and Mental Health of Hunan Province, The Central South University, Changsha, 410000, China.
Department of Applied Psychology, Traditional Chinese Medicine University of Hunan, Changsha, 410208, China.
BMC Psychiatry. 2017 Oct 25;17(1):352. doi: 10.1186/s12888-017-1510-0.
Autistic personality traits (APT) and schizotypal personality traits (SPT) are associated with depression. However, mediating factors within these relationships have not yet been explored. Thus, the focus of the current study was to examine the effects of childhood neglect on the relationship between APT/SPT and depression.
This cross-sectional study was conducted on first-year students (N = 2469) at Hunan University of Chinese Medicine and Hengyang Normal College (Changsha, China). Participants completed surveys on APT, SPT, childhood neglect, abuse and depression.
Through correlational analyses, APT and SPT traits were positively correlated with childhood neglect and depression (p < 0.05). In a hierarchical regression analysis, among types of childhood maltreatment, emotional neglect (β = 0.112, p < 0.001) and physical neglect (β = 0.105, p < 0.001) were the strongest predictors of depression. Childhood neglect did not account for the relationships between APT/SPT and depression. Further analysis found that childhood neglect mediated the relationship between SPT and depression but not APT and depression.
Among types of childhood maltreatment, neglect was the strongest predicting factor for depression. Neglect did not account for the relationship between APT/SPT and depression but was a strong mediating factor between SPT and depression.
自闭症人格特质（APT）和精神分裂症人格特质（SPT）与抑郁有关。然而，这些关系中的中介因素尚未得到探索。因此，本研究的重点是研究童年忽视对 APT/SPT 与抑郁之间关系的影响。
本横断面研究在中国湖南中医药大学和衡阳师范学院（长沙）对一年级学生（N=2469）进行。参与者完成了 APT、SPT、童年忽视、虐待和抑郁的调查。
通过相关分析，APT 和 SPT 特质与童年忽视和抑郁呈正相关（p<0.05）。在分层回归分析中，在各种童年虐待中，情绪忽视（β=0.112，p<0.001）和身体忽视（β=0.105，p<0.001）是抑郁的最强预测因素。童年忽视并不能解释 APT/SPT 与抑郁之间的关系。进一步的分析发现，童年忽视在 SPT 和抑郁之间起中介作用，但在 APT 和抑郁之间不起中介作用。
在各种童年虐待中，忽视是抑郁的最强预测因素。忽视并不能解释 APT/SPT 与抑郁之间的关系，但它是 SPT 和抑郁之间的一个强有力的中介因素。
