Research Institute of Social Development, Southwestern University of Finance and Economics, Chengdu 611130, China.
Department of Applied Social Sciences, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong 999077, China.
Int J Environ Res Public Health. 2021 Nov 16;18(22):12041. doi: 10.3390/ijerph182212041.
Although recent studies demonstrated that parent-child discrepancies in the perceived family processes were associated with children's developmental outcomes, few studies have addressed this issue in different types of families in mainland China. The present study investigated that how discrepancies in parents' and adolescents' perceptions of parent-adolescent communication were associated with early adolescent depressive symptoms in a nationally representative sample ( = 15,377) with 7010 father-adolescent dyads (adolescents: = 14.24 years, = 1.25 years; 5960 adolescents from two-parent families, 443 adolescents from single-father families) and 8367 mother-adolescent dyads (adolescents: = 14.02 years, = 1.18 years; 6670 adolescents from two-parent families, 1362 adolescents from single-mother families) in China. Adolescent respondents completed a measure of depressive symptoms and all informants reported on the perceived levels of parent-adolescent communication. Results indicated that adolescents reported parent-child communication more negatively than did their parents. Father-adolescent discrepancies were also greater in intact families than non-intact families. Polynomial regression analyses indicated that while there was a significant interactive effect of father-reported and adolescent-reported father-adolescent communication in Chinese two-parent families, no significant interaction was found for mother-adolescent dyad. Besides, adolescent-reported mother-child communication interacted with mother-reported communication in Chinese single-mother families only. The findings clarify parent-adolescent discrepancies in parent-child communication in different types of families in China and they have theoretical and practical implications on the role of discrepancies in parents and adolescent children on perceived parent-adolescent communication in early adolescent depressive symptoms.
尽管最近的研究表明，父母与子女在感知家庭过程方面的差异与儿童的发展结果有关，但在中国的不同类型家庭中，很少有研究涉及这个问题。本研究在一个具有全国代表性的样本中（n=15377，包括 7010 对父母-青少年关系[青少年：年龄=14.24 岁，SD=1.25 岁；5960 名青少年来自双亲家庭，443 名青少年来自单亲家庭]和 8367 对母子关系[青少年：年龄=14.02 岁，SD=1.18 岁；6670 名青少年来自双亲家庭，1362 名青少年来自单亲家庭]）调查了父母与青少年感知到的亲子沟通差异如何与早期青少年抑郁症状相关。在中国，青少年受访者完成了一项抑郁症状量表，所有知情者都报告了感知到的亲子沟通水平。结果表明，青少年对亲子沟通的评价比父母更消极。在完整家庭中，父母与青少年的差异也更大。多项式回归分析表明，虽然在中国的双亲家庭中，父亲报告的和青少年报告的父亲-青少年沟通存在显著的交互作用，但在母子关系中没有发现显著的交互作用。此外，在单亲家庭中，只有青少年报告的母子关系与母亲报告的沟通存在交互作用。这些发现阐明了中国不同类型家庭中亲子沟通的父母与子女差异，并对父母和青少年儿童在早期青少年抑郁症状中感知到的亲子沟通差异的作用具有理论和实践意义。
