School of Public Health, Medical College of Soochow University, Suzhou, China.
Department of Ophthalmology, the Affiliated Hospital of Yunnan University, Kunming, China.
J Affect Disord. 2022 Nov 15;317:256-264. doi: 10.1016/j.jad.2022.08.091. Epub 2022 Aug 31.
College freshmen tend to have more psychological and behavioral problems compared with other populations, especially depressive symptoms. Perceived parental control has been proved to play a significant role in mental health among children and adolescents. Based on the theoretical and empirical research of chronotype and sleep quality, this study constructed a chain mediating model to examine whether they mediated the relationship between parental control and depressive symptoms among Chinese college freshmen.
A total of 2014 college freshmen from Dali University were recruited to participate in this study and completed self-report Parental Bonding Instrument (PBI), Morningness-Eveningness Questionnaire (MEQ), Pittsburgh Sleep Quality Index (PSQI) and Self-Rating Depression Scale (SDS). PROCESS 3.5 for SPSS was applied to determine the chain mediating effect of chronotype and sleep quality between parental control and depressive symptoms.
College freshmen with depressive symptoms have higher levels of parental control and worse subjective sleep quality than normal population (all p < 0.001). All study variables are correlated with each other, while chronotype has no significant association with depressive symptoms (r = -0.03, p > 0.05). Both maternal and paternal control have a direct link with depressive symptoms (β = 0.86, p < 0.001; β = 0.88, p < 0.001). Parental control could affect depressive symptoms via the independent mediating effect of sleep quality and the chain mediating effect of chronotype and sleep quality. The total indirect effects of maternal and paternal control on depressive symptoms are 0.93 and 0.94, respectively.
Chronotype and sleep quality could mediate the association between parental control and depressive symptoms.
与其他人群相比，大学新生往往有更多的心理和行为问题，尤其是抑郁症状。已证实，父母控制对儿童和青少年的心理健康起着重要作用。基于时型和睡眠质量的理论和实证研究，本研究构建了一个链式中介模型，以检验它们是否在父母控制与中国大学新生抑郁症状之间起中介作用。
共招募大理大学 2014 名大学新生参与本研究，完成父母教养方式问卷（PBI）、晨晚型问卷（MEQ）、匹兹堡睡眠质量指数（PSQI）和自评抑郁量表（SDS）。SPSS 的 PROCESS 3.5 用于确定时型和睡眠质量在父母控制与抑郁症状之间的链式中介效应。
有抑郁症状的大学新生比正常人群具有更高的父母控制水平和更差的主观睡眠质量（均 p<0.001）。所有研究变量相互关联，而时型与抑郁症状无显著相关性（r=-0.03，p>0.05）。母亲和父亲的控制都与抑郁症状直接相关（β=0.86，p<0.001；β=0.88，p<0.001）。父母控制可以通过睡眠质量的独立中介效应以及时型和睡眠质量的链式中介效应影响抑郁症状。母亲和父亲控制对抑郁症状的总间接效应分别为 0.93 和 0.94。
时型和睡眠质量可以中介父母控制与抑郁症状之间的关系。
