Aronson Olov, Bergh Daniel
Jönköping University, School of Health and Welfare, Barnarpsgatan 39, 55111, Jönköping, Sweden.
University of Gothenburg, Västra Hamngatan 25, 41117, Göteborg, Sweden.
SSM Popul Health. 2021 Aug 3;15:100889. doi: 10.1016/j.ssmph.2021.100889. eCollection 2021 Sep.
Adolescents who feel depressed are likely to experience social isolation from friends. Previous studies have put forward at least four hypotheses that can account for the association between felt depression and social isolation. The hypotheses are: (1) adolescents who are rejected tend to feel more depressed, (2) adolescents who feel depressed tend to become rejected, (3) adolescents who withdraw from friends tend to feel more depressed, and (4) adolescents who feel depressed tend to withdraw from friends. The present study aims to test these four hypotheses in ethnically diverse contexts in three countries. Two waves of data from England ( = 515), Sweden ( = 1,228), and Germany ( = 869) were obtained from the Children of Immigrants Longitudinal Survey in Four European Countries (CILS4EU). One separate stochastic actor-oriented model of the longitudinal coevolution of friendship networks and felt depression was estimated for each of the three countries using the statistical package RSiena. The results consistently indicated that, in all three countries, adolescents who felt depressed were rejected by their peers. Also, the results consistently indicated that adolescents who felt depressed sought more friends, and the results therefore refuted the suggestion that adolescents who feel depressed withdraw from their friends. The findings of the study can inform health-promotion interventions that attempt to limit the social isolation of adolescents who feel depressed in ethnically diverse contexts. More specifically, the study suggests that the social isolation of adolescents who feel depressed may be limited through interventions that reduce the rejection that these adolescents experience from their peers.
感到抑郁的青少年很可能会与朋友产生社交隔离。以往的研究至少提出了四种假设来解释所感受到的抑郁与社交隔离之间的关联。这些假设是：（1）被拒绝的青少年往往会感到更抑郁，（2）感到抑郁的青少年往往会被拒绝，（3）与朋友疏远的青少年往往会感到更抑郁，以及（4）感到抑郁的青少年往往会与朋友疏远。本研究旨在在三个国家不同种族背景下检验这四种假设。来自英格兰（n = 515）、瑞典（n = 1228）和德国（n = 869）的两波数据取自《四个欧洲国家移民子女纵向调查》（CILS4EU）。使用统计软件包RSiena，针对这三个国家分别估计了一个关于友谊网络和所感受到的抑郁纵向共同演化的随机行为者导向模型。结果一致表明，在所有这三个国家中，感到抑郁的青少年都被同龄人拒绝。此外，结果还一致表明，感到抑郁的青少年会寻求更多朋友，因此该结果驳斥了感到抑郁的青少年会与朋友疏远这一观点。该研究的结果可为旨在限制不同种族背景下感到抑郁的青少年社交隔离的健康促进干预措施提供参考。更具体地说，该研究表明，通过减少这些青少年所经历的来自同龄人的拒绝的干预措施，可能会限制感到抑郁的青少年的社交隔离。
