Lu Aitao, Zhang Meichao, Li Meirong, Zhang Ye, Zhang Jijia
a Center for Studies of Psychological Application & School of Psychology , South China Normal University , Guangzhou China.
b Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science , Guangzhou , China.
J Child Adolesc Ment Health. 2019 May;31(1):63-75. doi: 10.2989/17280583.2019.1608829. Epub 2019 May 5.
Prior studies have shown strong pairwise relationships between neuroticism, peer attachment, and depression but very little was found on the questions of how neuroticism is associated with depression through secure peer attachment, and what role individual difference played in these relations (i.e., the moderating mechanism of being visually impaired or not). The present study investigated the relationship between neuroticism and depression with secure peer attachment as the mediator and being visually impaired or not as the moderator among visually impaired and sighted adolescents. The sample consisted of 67 visually impaired adolescents from a special education school, and 160 sighted adolescents from an elementary school and a middle school in Guangzhou, China. All of the adolescents completed a battery of questionnaires that measured secure peer attachment, neuroticism, and depression. The results suggested that neuroticism and depression were negatively associated with secure peer attachment. Moreover, it was found that secure peer attachment partially mediated the relationship between neuroticism and depression and that this link was stronger in visually impaired adolescents than in sighted adolescents. The findings highlighted the importance of secure peer attachment for visually impaired adolescents, and results were interpreted in terms of implications for future studies.
先前的研究表明，神经质、同伴依恋和抑郁之间存在很强的两两关系，但关于神经质如何通过安全的同伴依恋与抑郁相关联，以及个体差异在这些关系中扮演什么角色（即视力受损与否的调节机制）的问题，研究发现的内容非常少。本研究调查了视力受损和视力正常的青少年中，以安全的同伴依恋为中介变量、视力受损与否为调节变量时，神经质与抑郁之间的关系。样本包括一所特殊教育学校的67名视力受损青少年，以及中国广州一所小学和一所中学的160名视力正常的青少年。所有青少年都完成了一系列测量安全同伴依恋、神经质和抑郁的问卷。结果表明，神经质和抑郁与安全同伴依恋呈负相关。此外，研究发现安全同伴依恋部分中介了神经质与抑郁之间的关系，并且这种联系在视力受损青少年中比在视力正常青少年中更强。这些发现凸显了安全同伴依恋对视力受损青少年的重要性，并从对未来研究的启示角度对结果进行了解释。
