Collaborative Innovation Center of Assessment Toward Basic Education Quality, Beijing Normal University, Beijing, China.
Department of Sociology, University of Groningen, Groningen, The Netherlands.
Res Child Adolesc Psychopathol. 2021 Oct;49(10):1359-1371. doi: 10.1007/s10802-021-00826-9. Epub 2021 May 13.
Though depressive symptoms tend to increase in early adolescence, the trajectories of these symptoms may vary strongly. This longitudinal study investigated the extent to which the distinct developmental trajectories of depressive symptoms were predicted by adolescents' academic achievement and perceived parental practices in a sample of Chinese young adolescents (N = 2,576). The results showed four trajectory profiles of depressive symptoms: low-stable (75%), low-increasing (11%), high-stable (9%), and high-decreasing (5%). Adolescents with high academic achievement were more likely to be classified into the low-stable, low-increasing, and high-decreasing profiles than into the high-stable depressive symptom profile. Moreover, students who perceived greater parental autonomy support were more likely to be in the low-stable and low-increasing profiles than the high-stable profile, whereas adolescents perceiving more parental psychological control had higher odds of being in the low-increasing rather than the low-stable profile. Parental educational involvement was unrelated to students' depressive symptom trajectories. In sum, Chinese adolescents with higher academic achievement and who perceived more parental autonomy support, and less psychological control, were at lower risk of experiencing depressive symptoms.
尽管抑郁症状在青少年早期往往会增加，但这些症状的轨迹可能有很大的不同。本纵向研究调查了青少年的学业成绩和感知到的父母教养方式在多大程度上可以预测中国青少年样本中抑郁症状的不同发展轨迹（N=2576）。结果显示，抑郁症状有四种轨迹模式：低稳定（75%）、低增长（11%）、高稳定（9%）和高下降（5%）。学业成绩高的青少年更有可能被归为低稳定、低增长和高下降的轨迹模式，而不是高稳定的抑郁症状模式。此外，感知到父母更大的自主支持的学生更有可能处于低稳定和低增长的轨迹模式，而不是高稳定的轨迹模式，而感知到更多父母心理控制的青少年则更有可能处于低增长而不是低稳定的轨迹模式。父母的教育参与与学生的抑郁症状轨迹无关。总之，学业成绩较高、感知到父母更多自主支持和较少心理控制的中国青少年患抑郁症状的风险较低。
