Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing 100124, China.
CAS Key Laboratory of Mental Health, Institute of Psychology, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Beijing 100101, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Oct 24;18(21):11164. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182111164.
Previous studies have found that adolescents' depressive symptoms are influenced by social networks in a stressful context, especially focusing on the processes of social selection and social influence. The current study aimed to explore the coevolution of sociometric popularity and depressive symptoms among adolescents suffering from the stress attached to the Chinese .
The analytical sample comprised 1062 Chinese adolescents who were under significant pressure to return to school for an additional year (returnees) to prepare for college entrance examinations. Students were assessed for depressive symptoms and asked to nominate up to five friends within their classes across four waves (six months). We employed stochastic actor-oriented models to investigate the interdependent relationships between popularity and depressive symptoms.
Adolescents' depressive symptoms negatively predicted future friendship popularity in this stressful situation, but not vice versa. The results of this study also highlighted the importance of friends' popularity, indicating that adolescents who nominated popular peers as friends tended to subsequently have lower depressive symptoms.
These findings suggested that friends' popularity may serve as a protective factor against depressive symptoms under major chronic stress. Network-based interventions may have practical implications for reducing depressive symptoms under major chronic stress.
先前的研究发现，在压力环境下，青少年的抑郁症状受到社交网络的影响，尤其是关注社交选择和社交影响的过程。本研究旨在探讨中国. 背景下，承受巨大升学压力的青少年在社交计量流行度和抑郁症状之间的共同演变。
分析样本包括 1062 名中国青少年，他们因准备高考而被迫额外休学一年（复读生）。学生们在四个时间点（六个月）接受抑郁症状评估，并要求提名班上最多五个朋友。我们采用随机演员导向模型来研究在这种压力环境下，受欢迎程度和抑郁症状之间的相互关系。
在这种压力情况下，青少年的抑郁症状会对未来的友谊受欢迎程度产生负面影响，但反之则不然。研究结果还强调了朋友受欢迎程度的重要性，表明提名受欢迎的同伴为朋友的青少年往往随后抑郁症状较低。
这些发现表明，在重大慢性压力下，朋友的受欢迎程度可能是预防抑郁症状的保护因素。基于网络的干预措施可能对减少重大慢性压力下的抑郁症状具有实际意义。
