School of Marxism & Mental Health Education Center, YanShan University, Qinhuangdao 066004, China.
College of Economics & Management, South China Agricultural University, Guangzhou 510642, China.
J Affect Disord. 2021 Aug 1;291:288-293. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.05.019. Epub 2021 May 23.
Depression is the leading cause of suicide. Childhood maltreatment is an important influencing factor for depression in adulthood. However, the mediating effect of self-compassion between childhood maltreatment and depression has not yet been explored.
A cluster random sampling of 4189 students was selected from a university in Hebei Province, China. They completed the Childhood Trauma Questionnaire-Short Form, the Self-Compassion Scale, and the Self-Rating Depression Scale.
Depression is significantly positively correlated with childhood maltreatment and its subscales, including emotional abuse, physical abuse, sexual abuse, emotional neglect, and physical neglect. Childhood maltreatment can affect depression not only directly, but also indirectly through self-compassion and its components of self-kindness, the sense of common humanity, and mindfulness.
Potential sampling bias, subjective measures, and the cross-sectional design are the main limitations.
Self-compassion partly plays a mediating role between childhood maltreatment and depression. College educators and clinicians should actively help college students who experienced abuse during childhood to increase their level of self-compassion to reduce their depression.
抑郁症是自杀的主要原因。童年期虐待是成年后患抑郁症的一个重要影响因素。然而，自我同情在童年期虐待和抑郁症之间的中介作用尚未得到探讨。
采用整群随机抽样的方法，从中国河北省的一所大学中抽取了 4189 名学生。他们完成了童年创伤问卷-短式、自我同情量表和自评抑郁量表。
抑郁症与童年期虐待及其各分量表（包括情感虐待、躯体虐待、性虐待、情感忽视和躯体忽视）显著正相关。童年期虐待不仅可以直接影响抑郁症，还可以通过自我同情及其各成分（自我友善、共通人性感和正念）间接地影响抑郁症。
潜在的抽样偏差、主观测量和横断面设计是主要的局限性。
自我同情在一定程度上在童年期虐待和抑郁症之间起着中介作用。高校教育者和临床医生应该积极帮助经历过童年期虐待的大学生提高自我同情水平，以降低他们的抑郁水平。
