Department of Counseling Psychology, Honam University, Gwangju, South Korea.
Heliyon. 2022 May 16;8(5):e09429. doi: 10.1016/j.heliyon.2022.e09429. eCollection 2022 May.
Beyond the trauma research, it was assumed that ordinary younger people can experience moral injury, leading to depression. Based on this assumption, this study investigated the mediating pathways by which moral injury, caused by oneself, others, and by betrayal of others, impacts depression through self-compassion.
Overall, 1,567 South Korean youths responded to an online survey that employed three scales: the Moral Injury Experience Scale, the Korean version of the Self-Compassion Scale, and the Korean version of the Center for Epidemiologic Studies Depression Scale. A mediation analysis was used to examine whether moral injury predicted depression through positive (self-kindness, mindfulness, and common humanity) and negative components (self-judgment, isolation, and over-identification).
The results showed that the three types of moral injury (by oneself, by others, and by betrayal of others) had a significant direct effect on depression and a significant indirect effect via the negative components, while the three positive components did not have any significant mediating effect.
Overall, a sociocultural explanation, in addition to the existing theoretical frameworks, is required to understand the depression occurring in the current young generation in South Korea.
除了创伤研究外,人们认为普通年轻人也可能经历道德伤害,进而导致抑郁。基于这一假设,本研究调查了由自身、他人以及他人背叛所导致的道德伤害通过自我同情影响抑郁的中介途径。
共有1567名韩国年轻人参与了一项在线调查,该调查使用了三个量表:道德伤害体验量表、韩国版自我同情量表以及韩国版流行病学研究中心抑郁量表。采用中介分析来检验道德伤害是否通过积极成分(自我友善、正念和共通人性)和消极成分(自我评判、孤立和过度认同)来预测抑郁。
结果显示,三种类型的道德伤害(由自身、他人以及他人背叛导致)对抑郁有显著的直接影响,并且通过消极成分有显著的间接影响,而三种积极成分没有任何显著的中介作用。
总体而言,除了现有的理论框架外,还需要一种社会文化解释来理解韩国当代年轻一代中出现的抑郁现象。