Old Dominion University, Norfolk, VA, USA.
Virginia Consortium Program in Clinical Psychology, Norfolk, VA, USA.
J Youth Adolesc. 2019 Nov;48(11):2114-2124. doi: 10.1007/s10964-019-01086-z. Epub 2019 Jul 24.
Although personal identity development has been conceptualized as a source of psychological stability and protective against depressive symptoms among Hispanic immigrants, there remains ambiguity regarding the directional relationship between identity development and depression. To address this limitation, the current study sought to establish directionality between identity development and depressive symptoms. The sample consisted of 302 recent (<5 years) immigrant Hispanic adolescents (53.3% boys; M = 14.51 years at baseline; SD = 0.88 years) from Miami and Los Angeles who participated in a longitudinal study. The findings suggested a bidirectional relationship between identity and depressive symptoms such that identity coherence negatively predicted depressive symptoms, yet depressive symptoms also negatively predicted coherence and positively predicted subsequent identity confusion. Findings not only provide further evidence for the protective role of identity development during times of acute cultural transitions, but also emphasize the need for research to examine how depressive symptoms, and psychopathology more broadly, may interfere with establishing a sense of self.
尽管个人认同发展被概念化为心理稳定性的来源，并可预防西班牙裔移民的抑郁症状，但认同发展和抑郁之间的定向关系仍存在模糊性。为了解决这一局限性，本研究旨在确定认同发展和抑郁症状之间的方向性。该样本由 302 名最近（<5 年）移民到迈阿密和洛杉矶的西班牙裔青少年（53.3%为男孩；基线时的平均年龄为 14.51 岁，标准差为 0.88 岁）组成，他们参加了一项纵向研究。研究结果表明，认同和抑郁之间存在双向关系，即认同连贯性负向预测抑郁症状，而抑郁症状也负向预测连贯性并正向预测随后的认同混乱。研究结果不仅进一步证明了认同发展在急性文化过渡时期的保护作用，而且还强调需要研究如何抑郁症状，以及更广泛的心理病理学，可能会干扰自我意识的建立。
