Key Laboratory of Adolescent Cyberpsychology and Behavior, Ministry of Education, Wuhan 430056, China.
Key Laboratory of Human Development and Mental Health of Hubei Province, School of Psychology, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430056, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Jun 24;18(13):6808. doi: 10.3390/ijerph18136808.
The consequence of childhood trauma may last for a long time. The purpose of the present study was to examine the effect of childhood trauma on general distress among Chinese adolescents and explore the potential mediating roles of social support and family functioning in the childhood trauma-general distress linkage. A total of 2139 valid questionnaires were collected from two high schools in southeast China. Participants were asked to complete the questionnaires measuring childhood trauma, social support, family functioning, and general distress. Pathway analysis was conducted by using SPSS AMOS 24.0 and PROCESS Macro for SPSS 3.5. Results showed that childhood trauma was positively associated with general distress among Chinese adolescents. Social support and family functioning independently and serially mediated the linkage of childhood trauma and general distress. These findings confirmed and complemented the ecological system theory of human development and the multisystem developmental framework for resilience. Furthermore, these findings indicated that the mental and emotional problems of adolescents who had childhood trauma were not merely issues of adolescents themselves, but concerns of the whole system and environment.
童年创伤的后果可能会持续很长时间。本研究旨在探讨童年创伤对中国青少年一般困扰的影响，并探讨社会支持和家庭功能在童年创伤与一般困扰联系中的潜在中介作用。本研究共从中国东南部的两所高中收集了 2139 份有效问卷。要求参与者完成测量童年创伤、社会支持、家庭功能和一般困扰的问卷。采用 SPSS AMOS 24.0 和 PROCESS Macro for SPSS 3.5 进行路径分析。结果表明，童年创伤与中国青少年的一般困扰呈正相关。社会支持和家庭功能独立且连续地介导了童年创伤和一般困扰之间的联系。这些发现证实和补充了人类发展的生态系统理论和韧性的多系统发展框架。此外，这些发现表明，有童年创伤的青少年的心理和情绪问题不仅仅是青少年自身的问题，而是整个系统和环境的关注点。
