School of Psychology, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China; Center for Studies of Psychological Application, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China; Guangdong Key Laboratory of Mental Health and Cognitive Science, South China Normal University, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China; Key Laboratory of Brain, Cognition and Education Sciences, South China Normal University, Ministry of Education, Guangzhou 510631, People's Republic of China.
Department of Psychology, University of South Carolina, Columbia, SC, USA.
J Affect Disord. 2021 Dec 1;295:216-224. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2021.08.040. Epub 2021 Aug 26.
Previous research has identified a significant, positive relation between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms. However, the findings required replication at the within-person level. Moreover, the mediating mechanism of locus of control accounting for their relations has yet to be fully evaluated. Thus, this study examined the dynamic longitudinal relations between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms including whether locus of control functioned as a mediator between them after separating between-person effects from within-person effects.
A sample of 4110 Chinese children (50.60% boys; M = 9.89 at Wave 1) covering the transitional period from middle childhood to early adolescence completed a package of self-report measures on 5 occasions across 2.5 years, using 6-month intervals. Random Intercept Cross-Lagged Panel Models were applied to disaggregate between- and within-person effects. Also, alternative Cross-Lagged Panel Models were applied.
Locus of control played a mediating role in the reciprocal relations between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms at the within-person level.
Some limitations existed in the measures. Moreover, sexual abuse was not investigated in this study.
The findings highlighted the mediating role of locus of control in the reciprocal relations between childhood maltreatment and depressive symptoms at the within-person level, suggesting that interventions targeted at promoting internal locus of control may help prevent the developmental pathway from childhood maltreatment to depressive symptoms and vice versa from middle childhood to early adolescence.
先前的研究已经确定了儿童期虐待与抑郁症状之间存在显著的正相关关系。然而，这些发现需要在个体内部水平上进行复制。此外，还需要对控制源的中介机制进行充分评估，以解释它们之间的关系。因此，本研究考察了儿童期虐待与抑郁症状之间的动态纵向关系，包括在将个体间效应与个体内效应分离后，控制源是否在它们之间起中介作用。
本研究使用了随机截距交叉滞后面板模型，对 4110 名中国儿童（50.60%为男生，M=9.89，在第 1 波）的数据进行了分析，这些儿童在 2.5 年的时间里，每隔 6 个月完成了 5 次自我报告测量，涵盖了从中童年到青春期早期的过渡时期。该模型用于分离个体间效应和个体内效应。同时，还应用了替代的交叉滞后面板模型。
控制源在儿童期虐待和抑郁症状的个体内水平上的相互关系中起中介作用。
研究中存在一些局限性，如测量方法的局限性，而且本研究未调查性虐待。
这些发现强调了控制源在儿童期虐待和抑郁症状的个体内水平上的相互关系中的中介作用，这表明，针对促进内部控制源的干预措施可能有助于防止从中童年到青春期早期的发展路径从儿童期虐待到抑郁症状，反之亦然。
