Gao Feifei, Yao Yuan, Yao Chengwen, Xiong Yan, Ma Honglin, Liu Hongbo
Department of Health Statistics, School of Public Health, Jinzhou Medical University, Jinzhou, China.
Medical College, Shandong University, Jinan, China.
Front Psychol. 2020 Jul 24;11:1769. doi: 10.3389/fpsyg.2020.01769. eCollection 2020.
Adolescents are particularly prone to antisocial behavior. The promoting effect of negative life events on antisocial behavior has been well-documented. However, the internal influence mechanisms between negative life events and antisocial behavior tendencies in adolescents are still unknown. The aim of this study was to explore the mediation effect of self-esteem and the moderated mediation effect of family support between negative life events and antisocial behavior tendencies in 8,958 adolescents who were selected from three Chinese provinces. Robust maximum likelihood estimator (MLR) of a structural equation model (SEM) was applied to test the mediation model and the moderated mediation model. The results revealed that negative life events had a positive effect on antisocial behavior tendencies in adolescents, with a direct effect of 0.082 (95% CI: 0.052, 0.111) and an indirect effect self-esteem of 0.168 (95% CI: 0.146, 0.191). Negative life events had a 67.20% effect on antisocial behavior tendencies, where self-esteem showed mediation. The indirect effect was 2.049-fold greater than the direct effect. Furthermore, the effect of latent interaction of subjective family support and negative life events on self-esteem was negatively significant ( = -0.018, = 0.032, 95% CI: -0.035, -0.002). The indirect effect of negative life events was greater, where subjective family support was below 1 SD of the mean (conditional indirect effect = 0.227, 95% CI = 0.200, 0.255) than where it was above 1 SD of the mean (conditional indirect effect = 0.203, 95% CI = 0.177, 0.229). The moderated mediation effect index was -0.012, = 0.033. Moderated mediation showed that the mediated path was less evident in the students who had greater subjective support from family. The results of the current study demonstrated the important role that self-esteem and subjective family support played in minimizing the adverse effect of negative life events on antisocial behavior development of adolescents. These findings have important implications for preventing antisocial behavior in adolescents by developing interventions aimed at enhancing their self-esteem and providing support-skill training to parents aimed at improving subjective family support of adolescents.
青少年特别容易出现反社会行为。负面生活事件对反社会行为的促进作用已有充分记录。然而，青少年负面生活事件与反社会行为倾向之间的内部影响机制仍不清楚。本研究的目的是探讨自尊的中介作用以及家庭支持在来自中国三个省份的8958名青少年负面生活事件与反社会行为倾向之间的调节中介作用。应用结构方程模型（SEM）的稳健最大似然估计器（MLR）来检验中介模型和调节中介模型。结果显示，负面生活事件对青少年的反社会行为倾向有正向影响，直接效应为0.082（95%置信区间：0.052，0.111），通过自尊的间接效应为0.168（95%置信区间：0.146，0.191）。负面生活事件对反社会行为倾向的影响中有67.20%是通过自尊起中介作用的。间接效应比直接效应大2.049倍。此外，主观家庭支持与负面生活事件的潜在交互作用对自尊的影响具有显著负向性（β = -0.018，SE = 0.032，95%置信区间：-0.035，-0.002）。当主观家庭支持低于均值1个标准差时，负面生活事件的间接效应更大（条件间接效应 = 0.227，95%置信区间 = 0.200，0.255），高于均值1个标准差时（条件间接效应 = 0.203，95%置信区间 = 0.177，0.229）。调节中介效应指数为-0.012，SE = 0.033。调节中介表明，在家庭主观支持较高的学生中，中介路径不太明显。本研究结果表明自尊和主观家庭支持在将负面生活事件对青少年反社会行为发展的不利影响降至最低方面发挥了重要作用。这些发现对于通过开展旨在提高青少年自尊的干预措施以及为家长提供旨在改善青少年主观家庭支持的支持技能培训来预防青少年反社会行为具有重要意义。
