Jiang Lijiao, Yang Dandan, Li Yitong, Yuan Jiajin
The Affective Cognition and Regulation Laboratory, Institute of Brain and Psychological Sciences, Sichuan Normal University, Chengdu, China.
Department of Psychology, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China.
Front Psychiatry. 2021 Nov 18;12:786386. doi: 10.3389/fpsyt.2021.786386. eCollection 2021.
The current study examined the influence of pubertal development stage on depression and its psychosocial mechanisms in a non-clinical population of 502 adolescents (244 boys and 258 girls) in China, graded 5 to 8. Results indicated that (1) pubertal development was positively correlated with depression, negative physical self and interpersonal stress. (2) There is a significant gender by pubertal development interaction on the measure of academic self-concept, which is accounted for by decreased academic self in boys but not in girls as a function of pubertal development. (3) Mediation analyses show that increased depression in late compared to pre- puberty is partly mediated by the enhancement of negative physical self and interpersonal stress. These findings suggest that the late stage of puberty is coupled by a higher risk of depression in adolescents partly through increased negative physical self and interpersonal stress.
本研究在中国502名5至8年级的青少年(244名男孩和258名女孩)这一非临床人群中,考察了青春期发育阶段对抑郁及其心理社会机制的影响。结果表明:(1)青春期发育与抑郁、消极身体自我和人际压力呈正相关。(2)在学业自我概念测量上,存在青春期发育与性别的显著交互作用,这是由于随着青春期发育,男孩的学业自我下降,而女孩则不然。(3)中介分析表明,与青春期前相比,青春期后期抑郁增加部分是由消极身体自我和人际压力的增强所介导的。这些发现表明,青春期后期青少年抑郁风险较高,部分原因是消极身体自我和人际压力增加。